When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
ERMA BOMBECKWhen humor goes, there goes civilization.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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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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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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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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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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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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Children make your life important.
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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
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