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Erma Bombeck
February 21, 1927 - April 22, 1996
Nationality: American
Category: Journalist
Subcategory: American Journalist

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

    Topics: Courage

How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?

   

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

   

Children make your life important.

   

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

   

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

   

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

   

I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.

   

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.

   

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.

   

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

   

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

   

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

   

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

   

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

   

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

   

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

   

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

   

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

   

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

   

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