Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
ERMA BOMBECKNo one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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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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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can’t see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
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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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Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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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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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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