Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
ERMA BOMBECKHumor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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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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Every puppy should have a boy.
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Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
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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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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
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Children make your life important.
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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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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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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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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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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