Erma Bombeck Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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?