When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
ERMA BOMBECKGrandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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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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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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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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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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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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Success is outliving your failures.
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Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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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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I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It’s just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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