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Erma Bombeck

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Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) was an American humorist and columnist who found comedy in the everyday chaos of suburban domestic life. Her syndicated newspaper column reached millions of readers, and her bestselling books — including *The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank* — made her one of America's most beloved humor writers.

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

— Erma Bombeck

Sports

All Quotes by Erma Bombeck

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

— Erma Bombeck

Sports

“Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.”

— Erma Bombeck

Design

“A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.”

— Erma Bombeck

Birthday

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

— Erma Bombeck

Courage

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

— Erma Bombeck

Time

“God created man, but I could do better.”

— Erma Bombeck

God

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

— Erma Bombeck

Car

“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

Life

“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.”

— Erma Bombeck

Business

“Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.”

— Erma Bombeck

Mom

“Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.”

— Erma Bombeck

Funny

“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

Car

“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

Alone

“Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.”

— Erma Bombeck

Car

“I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.”

— Erma Bombeck

Women

“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

Courage

“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

Society

“Never have more children than you have car windows.”

— Erma Bombeck

Car

“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.”

— Erma Bombeck

Age

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

— Erma Bombeck

Car