Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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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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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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The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?
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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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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
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He who laughs lasts.
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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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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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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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When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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