A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
ERMA BOMBECKA grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.
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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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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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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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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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It is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
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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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