ThursdayNov 05, 2026
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Erma Louise Bombeck (February 21, 1927 - April 22, 1996), born Erma Fiste, was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for a newspaper column that depicted suburban home life in the second half of the 20th century.
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in.
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago.
I am not a glutton — I am an explorer of food.
Dreams have but one owner at a time. That is why dreamers are lonely.
What makes people laugh? ... It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give.
It is fast approaching the point where I don't want tAdenauer to want the job.
As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am.
Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally brain dead.
We've got a generation now who were born with semi-equality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attaché cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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