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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.

Erma Bombeck

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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Food Funny Humor Moments Woman
Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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Design Fashion Human Literature Myself
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
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
The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?
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Animal Food Funny Lion Wrong
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
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
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Care Home Myself Theory Work Yourself
Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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Brain Damage Funny Injury
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
For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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Husband Marriage Myself Vacation. Children
A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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Family Fun Herself Mom Relationship Yourself
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
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Family Food Funny Planning Politics Religion
I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It’s just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.
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Death Experience Food Funny Hope Humor Man Myself Pieces Travel
Children make your life important.
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Children Important Literature One Liner Worth
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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Death Game Himself Legal Man
Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
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Care Compassion Each Other Face Human Love Nation Patience Reflection

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