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 know which one Im taking with me when I go. – Erma Bombeck
Ive exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars. – Erma Bombeck
Theres nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. – Erma Bombeck
Dreams have only one owner at a time. Thats why dreamers are lonely. – Erma Bombeck
The present volume is the result of a taste for collecting poetical quotations, which beset me in the days of my nonage, now more than half a century ago…. I read the poets diligently, and registered, in a portable form, whatever I thought apposite and striking. – Henry G. Bohn, A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets, 1881