The best Quotes by Erma Bombeck

The best Quotes by Erma Bombeck

Erma Louise Bombeck (née Fiste; February 21, 1927 – April 22, 1996) was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for her newspaper humor column describing suburban home life.

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

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Laughing & Smile Humor & Comedy

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

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Children & Childhood Christmas

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Doctors & Medicine Offices

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

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College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

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What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

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Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

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What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

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Only when I’m dancing can I feel this free.

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Buenos Aires. I'm new, I wanna say I'm just a little stuck on you. And if ever I go too far, it's because of the things you are. Beautiful town, I love you.

I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.

I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.

On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, m*sturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

My son Jack once said to me, "Dad, do you think people are laughing with you or at you?"
I said, "I don't care as long as they're laughing."

Ozzy Osbourne

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For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

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Laughing & Smile Positive Quotes

A smile is the shortest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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Laughing & Smile

A smile is the best makeup a girl can wear.

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If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

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Laughing & Smile Humor & Comedy

He who can make people laugh has to be taken seriously; all people with power know that.

Werner Finck

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Laughing & Smile Humor & Comedy Satire

Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age.

Theodor Seuss Geisel

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Humor & Comedy Craziness & Weirdness

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Charles Dickens

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Life Love Humor & Comedy

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

Langston Hughes

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Summer Humor & Comedy Air

A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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Children & Childhood Hearing & Listening

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Albert Einstein

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Children & Childhood Fairytales

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol

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Children & Childhood Christmas

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.

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Things happen. We can't explain them, we can't control them, but they do happen. Miracles do happen in medicine. They happen everyday, just not always when we need them to happen.

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What would you prefer - a doctor who holds your hand while you die, or one who ignores you while you get better? I suppose it would particularly suck to have a doctor, who ignores you while you die.

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Dumbledore: "So Mr. Scamander fears what more than anything else in the world?"
Newt: "Having to work in an office, sir."

Newt Scamander in Fantastic Beasts - 2: The Crimes of Grindelwald

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Work is great. So, always keep something for tomorrow!

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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Joanne K. Rowling

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People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

Frank Sinatra

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Happiness Self-Confidence Talent

Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.

The secret behind success isn't as much of a secret as people think. It's pretty simple. It's working as hard as you can to accomplish what you want.

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But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another.

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There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

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Fame New York City

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

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