Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
ERMA BOMBECKGuilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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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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Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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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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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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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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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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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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Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.
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