Author: Marcelene Cox

Heredity: The thing a child gets from the other side of the family.

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Definitions Family

Eating without conversation is only stoking.

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Communication Conversation Eating Food/Drink

No one is ever warmed by wool pulled over his eyes.

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Miscellaneous

Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.

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Activities Housework

Money enables a man to get along without an education, and education enables him to get along without money.

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Education Money

There are two times in a woman’s life when clothes are important: when she is young and when she is old.

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Appearance Clothing People Women

One sure way to lose another woman’s friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.

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Friends People

The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.

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Activities People Shopping Women

After you have children, the economic law reverses to Demand and Supply.

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Children Family

A teen-ager out of sight is like a kite in the clouds; even though you can’t see it you feel the tug on the string.

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Children Family

Why is it that when anything goes without saying, it never does?

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Communication Speech

A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by mother, who sees that the others get it.

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Activities Family Mothers

Invitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

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Communication Wordplay

An adolescent doesn’t always know where he’s going; only that he isn’t there.

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Children Family

Children always take the line of most persistence.

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Children Family Wordplay

The girl who marries for money may find herself in debt for life.

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Marriage Money

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there’s always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

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Children Family

If at first you don’t succeed, blame your parents.

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Family Parents Success

Youth is stranger than fiction.

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Children Family Wordplay

Money enables a man to get along without an education, and education enables him to get along without money.

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Money