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 BOMBECKIt takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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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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He who laughs lasts.
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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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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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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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Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn’t even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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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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Every puppy should have a boy.
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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.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
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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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