I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.
ERMA BOMBECKEncourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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Success is outliving your failures.
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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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I 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.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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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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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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I read one psychologist’s theory that said, “Never strike a child in your anger.” When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he’s recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?
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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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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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Children make your life important.
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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 humor goes, there goes civilization.
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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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