When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
ERMA BOMBECKHave 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.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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Children make your life important.
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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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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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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.
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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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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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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
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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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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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