A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. “What shall we name the other one?” I smiled. She was not amused.
ERMA BOMBECKWhen you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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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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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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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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Children make your life important.
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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.
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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 is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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