Erma Bombeck

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.

age


Erma Bombeck

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

alone


Erma Bombeck

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

birthday


Erma Bombeck

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.

business


Erma Bombeck

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

car


Erma Bombeck

Never have more children than you have car windows.

car


Erma Bombeck

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

car


Erma Bombeck

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

car


Erma Bombeck

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

car


Erma Bombeck

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

car


Erma Bombeck

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

car


Erma Bombeck

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

courage


Erma Bombeck

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.

courage


Erma Bombeck

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.

courage


Erma Bombeck

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

design


Erma Bombeck

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

dreams


Erma Bombeck

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

dreams


Erma Bombeck

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

family


Erma Bombeck

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

family


Erma Bombeck

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

funny


Erma Bombeck

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

funny


Erma Bombeck

Never have more children than you have car windows.

funny


Erma Bombeck

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'.

god


Erma Bombeck

God created man, but I could do better.

god


Erma Bombeck

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

graduation


Erma Bombeck

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

home


Erma Bombeck

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

home


Erma Bombeck

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.

home


Erma Bombeck

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'.

hope


Erma Bombeck

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

humor


Erma Bombeck

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

humor


Erma Bombeck

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'.

life


Erma Bombeck

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.

life


Erma Bombeck

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

life


Erma Bombeck

Children make your life important.

life


Erma Bombeck

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

marriage


Erma Bombeck

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

marriage


Erma Bombeck

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

medical


Erma Bombeck

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

medical


Erma Bombeck

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

men


Erma Bombeck

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

mom


Erma Bombeck

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

mom


Erma Bombeck

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

morning


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