When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
ERMA BOMBECKI 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.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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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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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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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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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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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can’t see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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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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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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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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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.
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