truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 12 January 2007 8:38 am

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.
Erma Bombeck

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 12 January 2007 8:41 am

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

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 12 January 2007 8:42 am

Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.
Erma Bombeck

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 12 January 2007 8:43 am

How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
Erma Bombeck

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 12 January 2007 8:46 am

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

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 12 January 2007 8:47 am

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

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 12 January 2007 8:50 am

The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to function, a mother must have her children believe she has never engaged in sex, never made a bad decision, never caused her own mother a moment's anxiety, and was never a child.
Erma Bombeck