Quotes About Marriage Erma Bombeck

#1. For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Erma Bombeck

#2. Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

Francesca Annis

#3. A mother who is afraid to admit that she resents her children may interfere so much in their lives, under the pretect of being concerned about their welfare and safety, that her over-protection is really a form of punishment.

Calvin Springer Hall

#4. There was a time when the one singular thing that held a marriage together was the threat of getting the kids.

Erma Bombeck

#5. Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to go the very extremes of literature, like Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake," before you get a literary work that literally unreadable.

Julian Barnes

#6. 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

#7. I know as surely as I live and breath the positive proof of what education can do for a man.

Jesse Stuart

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

Erma Bombeck

#9. What makes people laugh? ... It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give.

Erma Bombeck

#10. A week ago, the Water Rescue Society had held an evening there, as evidenced by the slogan hanging on the wall: THE CAUSE OF HELPING THE DROWNING IS IN THE HANDS OF THE DROWNING THEMSELVES.

Ilya Ilf

#11. Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him.

Erma Bombeck

#12. No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.

Dorothea Dix

#13. Who has gone hungry learns to think of the future and of the children.

Carolina Maria De Jesus

#14. My body is a holy temple.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. Just write it,Because it is the next best thing of the world.

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#16. People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.

Erma Bombeck

#17. It would have been a wonderful wedding - had it not been mine.

Erma Bombeck

#18. Jasper chuckled, shaking his head. You truly are one frightening little monster.

Stephenie Meyer

#19. The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity
their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought.

Edith Wharton

#20. Never be in a hurry to terminate a marriage. Remember, you may need this man/woman to finish a sentence.

Erma Bombeck

#21. On the left hand path we take the direct route, which is much more strenuous, much more dangerous, and much more likely to cause you to fall.

Zeena Schreck