Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
ERMA BOMBECKCleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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He who laughs lasts.
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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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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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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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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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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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It is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
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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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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
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