When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
ERMA BOMBECKNo one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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He who laughs lasts.
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If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
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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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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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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 got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.
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Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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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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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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