Erma Bombeck

More from Erma Bombeck

• Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

  • Success

• 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 expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

  • Children

• There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

  I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression (1970)

  • Christmas

All 11 quotes from Erma Bombeck

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy