Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. – Erma Bombeck
My type of humor is almost pure identification. A housewife reads my column and says, But thats happened to ME! I know just what shes talking about! – Erma Bombeck
Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart. – Erma Bombeck
Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life… a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of seedtime and harvest, the ripe product of the year — and the deep, deep connection of all these things with God. – Ray Stannard Baker (David Grayson)