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- 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…
- I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then…
- Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.
- The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
- Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.
- Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
- I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something.…
- It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have...One pair that see through closed doors. Another in the back of her head...and, of…
- Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children…
- It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's…
- There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put…
- Throughout the years I have set up my own rules about eating food: Never eat anything you can't pronounce. Beware of food that is described…
- It's frightening to wake up one morning and discover that while you were asleep you went out of style.
- 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…
- I have paid as much as $300 a night to throw up into a sink shaped like a seashell.
- A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
- Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold…
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