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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Erma Bombeck

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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Believe Book Children Friendship Herself Library Myself
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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Children Food Funny Myself Place Stay
Never have more children than you have car windows.
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Advice Children Funny Yourself
When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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Beginning Children Room Yourself
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
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
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
I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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Exploration Food Funny Humor Myself
Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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Funny Pieces Travel Yourself
Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn’t even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.
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Clean Experience Food Funny God Oneself Religious
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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Home Result Stop Work
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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Age Run Time Young
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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Endurance Family Friendship Funny Garden Place
When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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Food Funny Path Tough
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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Home Ideas Myself See Work
When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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Appearance Home Humor Time Travel Yourself

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