Erma Bombeck Quotes

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

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

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. This is not a coincidence.

Adults can take a simple holiday for children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman opening up six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name.

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

I read one psychologist’s theory that said, “Never strike a child in anger.” When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he is recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on a Sunday?

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