Cats invented self-esteem.
ERMA BOMBECKDon’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
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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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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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I read one psychologist’s theory that said, “Never strike a child in your anger.” When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he’s recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?
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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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