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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

Erma Bombeck

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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Give Up Guilty
I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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Discover Myself Science Worry
Success is outliving your failures.
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Failure Growth Inspirational Live One Liner Success
Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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Children Encouragement Independence Lose
I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
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Funny Give Up Myself See Sex Trust Woman
Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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Design Fashion Human Literature Myself
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
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Family Food Funny Planning Politics Religion
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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Children Ideas Light Myself Yourself
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
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
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Care Home Myself Theory Work Yourself
A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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Kindess Night Oneself Parents Price
I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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Exploration Food Funny Humor Myself
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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Children Courage Funny Inspirational Moments Parents White
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
If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Inspirational Laughter Yourself
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

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