One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
– Erma Bombeck
Related Quotes:
- Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? – Erma Bombeck
- Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. – Erma Bombeck
- It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows – Erma Bombeck
- I married my first husband for love, my second husband for adventure, and my third husband for laffs. – Carolyn V Hamilton
- A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat. – Erma Bombeck
- It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. – Erma Bombeck
- Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery. – Erma Bombeck
- When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he’s doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911. – Erma Bombeck
- All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. – Erma Bombeck
- I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle. – Erma Bombeck
- If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. – Erma Bombeck
- Don’t worry about who doesn’t like you, who has more, or who’s doing what. – Erma Bombeck
- Housework, if you do it right, will kill you. – Erma Bombeck – Lynn Kellan
- Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart. – 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
- Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. – Erma Bombeck
- I come from a home where gravy is a beverage. – Erma Bombeck
- Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children. – Erma Bombeck
- There was a time when the one singular thing that held a marriage together was the threat of getting the kids. – Erma Bombeck
- Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. – Erma Bombeck
- Marriage is sacred intimacy. The husband must love, feed and care for the family. The wife must love, respect and submit to the husband. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- For those who have learned what suffering is early on, you have prepared ahead of the pack so that you can take care of the pack. – Donna Lynn Hope
- You leave home, I have learned, counting the trip day by day. If you ever get to return, you count the trip miracle by miracle. – Gregory Maguire
- For every guy who loves being a dad, there’s another who realizes too late that he’s created something his wife loves more than him. – Mark R Brand
- Great deeds begin in the mind,extraordinary deeds begin in the heart,and remarkable deeds begin in the soul. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Ma? I think you have the spirit of husband-repelling. You are too hard, ma, you will not find a husband. But my pastor can destroy that spirit. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- A righteous husband is a responsible husband. – Habeeb Akande
- Listen until you’re the smartest.Learn until you’re the wisest.Live until you’re the merriest.Love until you’re the kindest. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. – Lin Yutang
- In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal. – Lucretia Mott
- Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else’s husband. – Elizabeth Bowen
- As husband and wife, to have a happy life together, you must have confidence and respect, and you must have substantial agreement in your faith. – Billy Graham
- When a husband and wife are concerned only about their own individual desires, the stage is set for conflict. – Billy Graham
- Husband and wife, must complement each other. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The terms `Husband’ and `Wife’ are inappropriate. They are only companions ad partners. One does not slave for other. They both have equal status. – Periyar EV Ramasamy
- I think poetry without metaphor is like husband and wife living in separate bedrooms. – Munia Khan
- How Many Marriages Would Be Better If the Husband and the Wife Clearly Understood That They’re On the Same Side? – Zig Ziglar
- Tell me about yourself.’ A strange thing for a husband to ask a wife. – Janet Mullany
- A husband and wife honor God when they love and honor each other. – Jim George
- Being a husband or a wife, is already a huge responsibility to shoulder, without adding in the expectations. – Norhafsah Hamid