Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Pregnancy is the only time in a woman's life she can help God work a miracle. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“There was a time when the one singular thing that held a marriage together was the threat of getting the kids.” — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The bad times I can handle. It's the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going going to… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I have a friend who lives by a three-word philosophy: Seize the Moment. Just possibly, she may be the wisest woman on… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
There was a time when the respect and trust my children had for me would have made you sick to your stomach.… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
... it's simply wrong to always order [kids] to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The fact that Americans drag around the world by the busloads to glimpse the past probably has something to do with the… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Before we sent kids to computer camps and told them they were having a good time, there was imagination among the human… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ... Time, self-pity, apathy, bitterness,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“The other night he took me to dinner. We were having a wonderful time when he remarked, "You can certainly tell the… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I will never understand children. I never pretended to. I meet mothers all the time who make resolutions to themselves. 'I'm going… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I'm real ambivalent about [working mothers]. Those of use who have been in the women's movement for a long time know that… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing… Thinking back on it all, it must have been the… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I have always felt that too much time was given before the birth, which is spent learning things like how to breathe… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Everyone is guilty at one time or another of throwing out questions that beg to be ignored, but mothers seem to have… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“I want to teach you so much that you must know to find happiness within yourself. Yet I don't know where to… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
No baby shall at any time be quartered in a house where there are no soft laps, no laughter, or no love. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I think it's time we women stopped carrying supplies for the entire family. If children don't have room to carry their own… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Myths that need clarification: "No matter how many times you see the Grand canyon, you are still emotionally moved to tears." False.… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“Childhood is a time for pretending and trying on maturity to see if it fits or hangs baggy, tastes good or bitter,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The woman who says, 'My kids are all speaking to one another and they love us' is a psychopathic liar. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter, stare at… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?! — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The mole rat is the only rodent born without a fur coat. With a good lawyer, someone would pay for that little oversight. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem to threaten their masculinity.… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
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