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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

Erma Bombeck

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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Food Funny Life
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
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
Children make your life important.
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Children Important Literature One Liner Worth
I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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Discover Myself Science Worry
Every puppy should have a boy.
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Animal Boy Company Dog Friendship
It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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Communication Inspirational Life Listening Suffering
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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Civilization Humor Loss
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
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
Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
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Body Born Children Deep Mom Pregnant
When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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Food Funny Path Tough
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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Courage Dream Kindness Yourself
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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Age Eye Kind Memories Old Perspective Thinking
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
A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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Family Fun Herself Mom Relationship Yourself

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