Every puppy should have a boy.
ERMA BOMBECKCleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn’t even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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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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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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Some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint – like a heartbeat. And pure love – why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there.
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He who laughs lasts.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.
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Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.
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