There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
ERMA BOMBECKI worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Children make your life important.
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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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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Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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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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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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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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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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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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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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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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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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