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.
ERMA BOMBECKGrandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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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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He who laughs lasts.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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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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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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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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