Erma Bombeck Quotes

  • Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
    ~ Erma Bombeck
  • Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, "No thank you" to desert that night. And for what?
    ~ Erma Bombeck
  • A child develops individuality long before he develops taste.
    ~ Erma Bombeck
  • It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive.
    ~ Erma Bombeck
  • Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, it's unplanned, it's full of surprises.
    ~ Erma Bombeck
  • Laugh now, cry later.
    ~ Erma Bombeck
  • It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. 

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    It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
    ~ Erma Bombeck
  • The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
    ~ Erma Bombeck
  • Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.
    ~ Erma Bombeck
  • There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
    ~ Erma Bombeck
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