Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
ERMA BOMBECKHousework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Cats invented self-esteem.
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Children make your life important.
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As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
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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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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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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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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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