Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
ERMA BOMBECKWhen you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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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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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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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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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn’t turn it on.
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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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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