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I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.

Erma Bombeck

Some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint – like a heartbeat. And pure love – why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there.
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Care Deep Emotion Funny Hard Love Pride Quiet Reality Yourself
Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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Design Fashion Human Literature Myself
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
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Food Preparation Thankful Time
Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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God Help Herself Life Maguc Pregnant Time Woman
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.
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Clothes Live Luck Myself Society
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
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Bed Boredom Family Mom Myself
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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Death Doctor Funny Humor Inspirational Plant
It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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Communication Inspirational Life Listening Suffering
One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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Beginning Different Husband Vacation Wife
A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
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Clothes Growth Parents Yourself
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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Happiness Hurt Laughter Pain Tragedy
Friends are “annuals” that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a “perennial” that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them.
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Endurance Family Friendship Funny Garden Place
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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Home Ideas Myself See Work
If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Inspirational Laughter Yourself
I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.
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Body Book Food Funny Myself
Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn’t turn it on.
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Children Ideas Light Myself Yourself

I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.

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