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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?

Erma Bombeck

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
I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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Exercise Insect Inspiration Woman
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
It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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Communication Inspirational Life Listening Suffering
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
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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Fate Food Myself Night Oneself Thinking Woman
Never have more children than you have car windows.
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Advice Children Funny Yourself
People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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Doctor Funny Humor People Survive Money
Cats invented self-esteem.
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Animal Cat Invention Worth
Success is outliving your failures.
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Failure Growth Inspirational Live One Liner Success
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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Body Born Children Deep Mom Pregnant
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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Home Result Stop Work
Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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Children Encouragement Independence Lose
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
Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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Design Fashion Human Literature Myself
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

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