My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
ERMA BOMBECKMy second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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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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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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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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It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You’re on your own, Bernice.
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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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There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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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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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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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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I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.
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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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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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