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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

Children make your life important.
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Children Important Literature One Liner Worth
Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can’t see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
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Age Eye Kind Memories Old Perspective Thinking
Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
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Age Run Time Young
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
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
Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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Children Encouragement Independence Lose
Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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Determination Difference Fame Greatness Success
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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Home Ideas Myself See Work
Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn’t even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.
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Clean Experience Food Funny God Oneself Religious
My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
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Children Food Funny Myself Place Stay
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
How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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Buy Fate Funny Price Yourself
Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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Give Up Guilty
I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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Exercise Insect Inspiration Woman
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
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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Courage Dream Kindness 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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