I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
ERMA BOMBECKSeize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Success is outliving your failures.
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As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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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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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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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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Children make your life important.
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I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
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It is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
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Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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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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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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