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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.

Erma Bombeck

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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Determination Difference Fame Greatness Success
Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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Act Children Forgiveness Love
Never have more children than you have car windows.
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Advice Children Funny Yourself
Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
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Humor Planning Surprise Wonderful
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
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
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
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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Children Family Funny Mom Myself Safety
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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Death Doctor Funny Humor Inspirational Plant
If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Inspirational Laughter Yourself
There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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Gift Morning Sad Spiritual Wake Up World
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
Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.
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Evening Failure Feeling Goodness Misery Sun
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’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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Exercise Insect Inspiration Woman
There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.
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Fun Funny Mother Water Wrong

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