There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.
ERMA BOMBECKSuccess is outliving your failures.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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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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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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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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He who laughs lasts.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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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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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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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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