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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Erma Bombeck

A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. “What shall we name the other one?” I smiled. She was not amused.
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Body Boundary Community Fun Funny Humor Myself Smile
Cats invented self-esteem.
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Animal Cat Invention Worth
The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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Advice Appearance
Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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God Help Herself Life Maguc Pregnant Time Woman
Success is outliving your failures.
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Failure Growth Inspirational Live One Liner Success
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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Death Doctor Funny Humor Inspirational Plant
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
Some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint – like a heartbeat. And pure love – why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there.
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Care Deep Emotion Funny Hard Love Pride Quiet Reality Yourself
The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
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Food Funny Life
Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
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Humor Planning Surprise Wonderful
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
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Food Preparation Thankful Time
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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Home Ideas Myself See Work
There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.
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Fun Funny Mother Water Wrong
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
Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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Determination Difference Fame Greatness Success
A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
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Clothes Growth Parents Yourself

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