Quotes by Erma Bombeck

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: ‘Checkout Time is 18 years.’

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

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

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

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.

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.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

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

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.