He who laughs lasts.
ERMA BOMBECKHe who laughs lasts.
ERMA BOMBECKGrandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
ERMA BOMBECKA member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. “What shall we name the other one?” I smiled. She was not amused.
ERMA BOMBECKGiving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
ERMA BOMBECKChildren make your life important.
ERMA BOMBECKTime. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
ERMA BOMBECKI worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
ERMA BOMBECKLaughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
ERMA BOMBECKNever go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
ERMA BOMBECKI 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.
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’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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 BOMBECKWhen the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
ERMA BOMBECKSeize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
ERMA BOMBECKThe 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?
ERMA BOMBECK