If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
ERMA BOMBECKPregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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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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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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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’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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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 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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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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