Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
ERMA BOMBECKHow come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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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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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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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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Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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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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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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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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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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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 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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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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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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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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Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.
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One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
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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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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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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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