There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.
ERMA BOMBECKTime. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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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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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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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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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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Children make your life important.
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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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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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There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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My 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?
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