How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
ERMA BOMBECKHe who laughs lasts.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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. Why should you?
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Friends are “annuals” that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a “perennial” that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them.
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I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
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Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn’t turn it on.
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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 would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It’s just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.
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He who laughs lasts.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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I read one psychologist’s theory that said, “Never strike a child in your anger.” When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he’s recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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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 wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.
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As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
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