How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
ERMA BOMBECKIf I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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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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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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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
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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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Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.
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I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
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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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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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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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