How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
ERMA BOMBECKEncourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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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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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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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.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn’t even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.
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Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
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The 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.
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Children make your life important.
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Women 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.
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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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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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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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