There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
ERMA BOMBECKHousework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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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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Success is outliving your failures.
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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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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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Friends are “annuals” that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a “perennial” that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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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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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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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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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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Housework can kill you if done right.
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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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