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

Erma Bombeck

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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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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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
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Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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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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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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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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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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