It is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
ERMA BOMBECKHave 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.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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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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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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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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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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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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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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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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