Never have more children than you have car windows.
ERMA BOMBECKThe grass is always greener over the septic tank.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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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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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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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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When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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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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He who laughs lasts.
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Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can’t see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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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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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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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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