Friends are “annuals” that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a “perennial” that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them.
ERMA BOMBECKPeople usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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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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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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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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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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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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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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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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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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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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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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