My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
ERMA BOMBECKIt seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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He who laughs lasts.
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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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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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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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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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Cats invented self-esteem.
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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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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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I read one psychologist’s theory that said, “Never strike a child in your anger.” When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he’s recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?
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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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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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