When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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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 odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
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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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Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn’t even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.
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I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
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As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
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Some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint – like a heartbeat. And pure love – why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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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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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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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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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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He who laughs lasts.
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