It is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
ERMA BOMBECKI just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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Friends are “annuals” that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a “perennial” that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them.
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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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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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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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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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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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He who laughs lasts.
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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
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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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I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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