Never have more children than you have car windows.
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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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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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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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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Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
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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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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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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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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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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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