Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Erma Bombeck Quotes

Leave Your With A Smile 

The Erma Bombeck quotes collected here will inject some humor in to your day. Erma Bombeck was a great humorist who could put a smile on anyone's face. We Guarantee that after reading her quotes you will definitely have a smile on yours.

This woman was so good that she became a very popular columnist and thousands of people read her articles. Although she had a lot of jokes surrounding the "housewife" and what they do as their duties in the home, you will still have a laugh at her interesting perspective of the topic.

Some of the Erma Bombeck quotes here are also very inspirational as well so this adds to the diverse nature of who she was as a person.

So go ahead have a laugh at these funny and inspirational Erma Bombeck quotes. Hope you have as much fun reading them as we had collecting them.

Erma Bombeck Quotes

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?
-- Erma Bombeck

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


Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
-- Erma Bombeck

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


There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.
-- 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.
-- Erma Bombeck


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

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

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.
-- Erma Bombeck

When humor goes, there goes civilization.
-- Erma Bombeck


All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
-- 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".
-- Erma Bombeck


When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
-- Erma Bombeck

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

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


Children make your life important.
-- Erma Bombeck

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
-- Erma Bombeck

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

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
-- Erma Bombeck

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.
-- Erma Bombeck

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: "Checkout Time is 18 years."
-- Erma Bombeck

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

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.
-- Erma Bombeck

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.
-- 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.
-- 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.
-- Erma Bombeck


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

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.
-- Erma Bombeck

I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
-- Erma Bombeck

Never have more children than you have car windows.
-- Erma Bombeck

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

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
-- Erma Bombeck

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

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
-- Erma Bombeck

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

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

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

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.
-- 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.
-- Erma Bombeck

Never accept a drink from a urologist.
-- Erma Bombeck

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Quotes

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


Never order food in excess of your body weight.
-- Erma Bombeck


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.
-- Erma Bombeck Quotes

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.
-- Erma Bombeck

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

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

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, "A house guest," you're wrong because I have just described my kids.
-- Erma Bombeck

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
-- Erma Bombeck Quotes

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
-- Erma Bombeck

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

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
-- Erma Bombeck

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.
-- Erma Bombeck

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

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.
-- Erma Bombeck

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


Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old.
-- 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.
-- Erma Bombeck Quotes

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