Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
ERMA BOMBECKI am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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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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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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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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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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He who laughs lasts.
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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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Cats invented self-esteem.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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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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