A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
ERMA BOMBECKIf a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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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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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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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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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
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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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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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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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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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It is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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Friends are “annuals” that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a “perennial” that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them.
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