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One Quotes by Erma Bombeck
- My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares.…
- Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
- One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are…
- No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there…
- All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
- Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I…
- There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants…
- It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have...One pair that see through closed doors. Another in the back of her head...and, of…
- Not everyone is comfortable with the kissing ritual. My husband is one of them. Her refuses to press lips with anyone except his wife, mother,…
- Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
- Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for…
- I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.
- 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's simply wrong to always order [kids] to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned…
- No One Diets on Thanksgiving.
- I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The…
- Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but women who…
- One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.
- I have finally mastered what to do with the second tennis ball. Having small hands, I was becoming terribly self-conscious about keeping it in a…
- It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY…
- I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he…
- My sister and I never engaged in sibling rivalry. Our parents weren't that crazy about either one of us.
- When they told me I needed a mastectomy, I thought of the thousands of luncheons and dinners I had attended where they slapped a name…
- We even switched to a newly-formed church across the town that gave one hundred and twenty trading stamps each time we attended. (We now worship…
- A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. "What shall we name the other one?" I smiled. She was not…
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle