The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
ERMA BOMBECKNo one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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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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The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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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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There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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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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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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He who laughs lasts.
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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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