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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Erma Bombeck

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
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Children Expectation Funny Life Oneself Sarcastic
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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Family Judgement Mom Understand
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
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End God Hope Inspirational Life Motivational Myself Success Talent
A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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Kindess Night Oneself Parents Price
Housework can kill you if done right.
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Funny Kill Work Yourself
Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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Children Clean Funny Home Mom
Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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Live Play Religious See Travel Understand Yourself
Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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Give Up Guilty
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
Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.
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Appearance Gift Hide Price Women
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
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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Civilization Humor Loss
No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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Bed Death Funny Motivation Sleep Women
It is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
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Funny Move Theory Yourself
I remember thinking how often we look, but never see … we listen, but never hear … we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.
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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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Funny Pieces Travel Yourself

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