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.
ERMA BOMBECKIf a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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I remember thinking how often we look, but never see … we listen, but never hear … we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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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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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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There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.
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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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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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