Erma Bombeck

Erma Bombeck

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."
89 Quotes
"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."
Erma Bombeck
Save
"“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.”"
Erma Bombeck
Save
"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
Save
"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
Save
"I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars."
Erma Bombeck
Save
"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other."
Erma Bombeck
Save
"Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments."
Erma Bombeck
Save
"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
Save
"Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time."
Erma Bombeck
Save
"Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother."
Erma Bombeck
Save
"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
Save
"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
Save
"Never have more children than you have car windows."
Erma Bombeck
Save
"A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday."
Erma Bombeck
Save
"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
Save
"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."
Erma Bombeck
Save
"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
Save
"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
Erma Bombeck
Save
"Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown."
Erma Bombeck
Save
"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
Save
✉️

Get more quotes like Erma Bombeck's — every morning.

Join thousands of wisdom seekers getting daily quotes from 300,000+ curated sources.

Free forever. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.