He who laughs lasts.
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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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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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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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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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn’t even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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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 you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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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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