How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
ERMA BOMBECKI’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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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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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You’re on your own, Bernice.
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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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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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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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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
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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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