If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
ERMA BOMBECKEvery puppy should have a boy.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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A 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.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It’s just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.
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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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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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The 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?
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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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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Every puppy should have a boy.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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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 got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.
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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
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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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Children make your life important.
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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Maybe 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.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
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