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.
ERMA BOMBECKSuccess is outliving your failures.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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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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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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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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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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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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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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Some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint – like a heartbeat. And pure love – why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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