Erma Bombeck Quotes
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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I think every relationship has a point where you stop and reevaluate. Are you happy? Have you grown together or apart? What do you share interests in? I think that's a normal thing to do, but it's so much harder when it's done publicly.
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There's a genius in all of us.
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For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.
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Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.
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Away with the one who is always seeking, for he never finds anything; for he is seeking where nothing can be found. Away with the one who is always knocking, for he knocks where there is no one to open; away with the one who is always asking, for he asks of one who does not hear.
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I got into acting so that I could meet girls. Pretty girls came later. First, I wanted to start off with someone with two legs, who'd smile at me and look soft.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.
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Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't, he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere-much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.
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By and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them.
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Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.
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If any player in the world tells you he doesn't care about what the opponents do, he is lying.
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I'm happy, but there is always room for improvement.
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Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other.
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I was surprised to learn that doing household chores qualifies as romantic for most of you women. That's exactly why you should never hire a butler if you strike it rich - the minute that Jeeves starts unloading the dishwasher without being asked, your wife is going to start humping his leg.
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The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.
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If you think about rap and how it has become so much easier to record music and release it, and you think about everyone in the world being a 'rapper' these days, it's so much easier. But it's still as hard as ever to break through and truly be successful in this industry.
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You hear in the person you're destined to love the sound of those yet to be born.
