Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Children make your life important. "
Erma Bombeck
Make
Children
Important
Related Quotes:
" Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. "
Erma Bombeck
Looking
Live
Go
" 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
Water
Mother
Only
" 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
Clothes
Society
Copy
" Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time. "
Erma Bombeck
Time
Car
Onion
" When humor goes, there goes civilization. "
Erma Bombeck
Goes
Humor
Civilization
" 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. "
Erma Bombeck
Medical
Hospital
Club
" Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. "
Erma Bombeck
Doctor
Office
Never
" I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair. "
Erma Bombeck
Young
Security
Old
" 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
Wrong
Mom
Know
" It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. "
Erma Bombeck
Your Dreams
Someone
Dreams
" Never order food in excess of your body weight. "
Erma Bombeck
Your Body
Body
Food
" Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip. "
Erma Bombeck
Me
Say
Our
" It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows. "
Erma Bombeck
Windows
Car
Children
" 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
My Life
Lunch
Life
" Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? "
Erma Bombeck
Carousel
Luggage
Never
" 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
Way
Back
Business
" 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. "
Erma Bombeck
Children
White
Test
" Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. "
Erma Bombeck
Fame
Confuse
Success
" 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. "
Erma Bombeck
Home
Hurt
Work
" Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it. "
Erma Bombeck
Admit
People
Parents
" Never accept a drink from a urologist. "
Erma Bombeck
Never
Drink
Accept
" If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. "
Erma Bombeck
Man
Three
Watches
" There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. "
Erma Bombeck
Humor
Laughter
Pain
" 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
Rest
Child
Hat
" 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
Home
Know
You
" 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
Time
Home
Job
" Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown. "
Erma Bombeck
Most
Off
Until
" A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. "
Erma Bombeck
Husband
Wife
Birthday
" What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere? "
Erma Bombeck
Hair
You
Stop
" 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
View
Time
Raising Children