Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can’t see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
ERMA BOMBECKWhen humor goes, there goes civilization.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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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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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
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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.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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He who laughs lasts.
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
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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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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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Children make your life important.
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