As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
ERMA BOMBECKNever have more children than you have car windows.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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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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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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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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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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Children make your life important.
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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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I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
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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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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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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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Housework can kill you if done right.
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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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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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Success is outliving your failures.
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