Success is outliving your failures.
ERMA BOMBECKThere’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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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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Children make your life important.
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A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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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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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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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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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You’re on your own, Bernice.
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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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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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