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Only Quotes by Erma Bombeck
- I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then…
- The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
- There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.
- I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in…
- 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. To…
- Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
- The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean.
- I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.
- If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished ever moment and realized that the…
- The mole rat is the only rodent born without a fur coat. With a good lawyer, someone would pay for that little oversight.
- The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to…
- Enter my first neighbor - a woman who spoke in complete, coherent sentences, who ate with a knife and fork and who only cried at…
- ...I remember thinking how often we look, but never see...we listen, but never hear...we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A…
- He opened the jar of pickles when no one else could. He was the only one in the house who wasn't afraid to go into…
- Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for…
- Myths that need clarification: Everyone in California lives on a white, sandy beach. False. The only people who live on California beaches are vacationers from…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle