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When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.

Erma Bombeck

One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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Beginning Different Husband Vacation Wife
I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
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Clothes Live Luck Myself Society
I remember thinking how often we look, but never see … we listen, but never hear … we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.
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Alive Existence Feeling Laughter Life Listen Myself Place Remember See Thinking Voice
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
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
Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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Food Improvement Time
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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Happiness Hurt Laughter Pain Tragedy
Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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Act Children Forgiveness Love
I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.
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Body Book Food Funny Myself
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
Success is outliving your failures.
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Failure Growth Inspirational Live One Liner Success
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
Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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Children Clean Funny Home Mom
The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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Advice Appearance
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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Civilization Humor Loss
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

When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.

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