When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
ERMA BOMBECKIt is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You’re on your own, Bernice.
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He who laughs lasts.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
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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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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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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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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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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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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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