I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
ERMA BOMBECKDid you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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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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A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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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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Success is outliving your failures.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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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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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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A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. “What shall we name the other one?” I smiled. She was not amused.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It’s just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.
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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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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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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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