When you're an orthodox worrier, some days are worse than others. — Erma Bombeck Orthodox Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy. — Erma Bombeck Anatomy Copy Share Image
With boys, you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane. — Erma Bombeck Boys Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children. — Erma Bombeck American family Copy Share Image
Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
... it's simply wrong to always order [kids] to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his… — Erma Bombeck Children Copy Share Image
A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn't charge more after midnight - or anything before midnight. — Erma Bombeck Baby Copy Share Image
Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet he's… — Erma Bombeck Boys Copy Share Image
I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look… — Erma Bombeck Bathing suit Copy Share Image
“To be honest, however, I will have to admit that I wrote this book for the original model - the one who… — Erma Bombeck Book Copy Share Image
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I'm real ambivalent about [working mothers]. Those of use who have been in the women's movement for a long time know that… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I've never vied for power in the family before. Pointing a box at the garage door and saying Open! was never a… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
No One Diets on Thanksgiving. What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November… — Erma Bombeck Funny Copy Share Image
If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished ever moment and… — Erma Bombeck Beautiful pregnancy Copy Share Image
Never underestimate what it takes to watch someone you love in pain. — Erma Bombeck Love Copy Share Image
I have paid as much as $300 a night to throw up into a sink shaped like a seashell. — Erma Bombeck Inspirational Copy Share Image
I don't think women outlive men, Doctor. It only seems longer. — Erma Bombeck Doctors Copy Share Image
Maybe you know why a child can reject a hot dog with mustard served on a soft bun at home, yet eat… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden.… — Erma Bombeck Feminism Copy Share Image
Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight… — Erma Bombeck Age Copy Share Image
Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?! — Erma Bombeck Desert Copy Share Image
Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies,… — Erma Bombeck Beach Copy Share Image
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