When humor goes, there goes civilization.
ERMA BOMBECKWhen humor goes, there goes civilization.
ERMA BOMBECKMy second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
ERMA BOMBECKWhen my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
ERMA BOMBECKIt is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
ERMA BOMBECKMaybe 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.
ERMA BOMBECKThe odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
ERMA BOMBECKI 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.
ERMA BOMBECKWhen the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
ERMA BOMBECKSome emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint – like a heartbeat. And pure love – why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there.
ERMA BOMBECKMy idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
ERMA BOMBECKMy theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
ERMA BOMBECKWomen are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.
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.
ERMA BOMBECKSeize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
ERMA BOMBECKOnion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
ERMA BOMBECKI haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
ERMA BOMBECK