I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
ERMA BOMBECKAs 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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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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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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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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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
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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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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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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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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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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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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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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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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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