Marcelene Cox Quotes

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Life is like a camel: you can make it do anything except back up.

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The test of being a good host is how well the departing guest likes himself.

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A sense of humor in marriage acts as a lightning rod on a building: grounds the sparks from the air.

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A good home is a place where children can do what they like... but not to somebody else.

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There are two kinds of people in the world: those who live poor on a lot and those who live rich on a little.

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Trouble, like the hill ahead, straightens out when you advance upon it.

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To some women, housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.

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To raise good human beings it is not only necessary to be a good mother and a good father, but to have had a good mother and father.

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The illusions of childhood are necessary experiences: A child should not be denied a balloon just because an adult knows that sooner or later it will burst.

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A bachelor is a man who can take a nap on top of a bedspread.

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She talks with deliberation, as if pressing out a ruffle on each word.

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No man knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan, and raised an adolescent.

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

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It is never the other woman's dust that annoys, just our own.

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It is possible to be so busy going on or off a diet that there isn't time left to enjoy life. Once people ate everything set before them, and had the courage to digest it too.

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Children should not be condemned for accidents. Compared with an adult, the child is all left hand.

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When raising rabbits, it doesn't take long to get double your bunny back.

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Supplementing an income may mean being more economical with the one you have.

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The difficulty between parents and adolescents is not always caused by the fact that parents fail to remember what growing up was like, but that they do.

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Three stages in a parent's life: nutrition, dentition, tuition.

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

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Civilization is only the advance from shoeless toes to toeless shoes.

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Heredity may be the Cellophane wrapper around a child which environment fails to penetrate.

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The mark of a good parent is that he can have fun while being one.

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Adolescence is to life what baking powder is to cake. (And it's better to have too much than too little).

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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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Why is it that the person who needs no introduction usually gets the longest one?

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Giving the frosting dish into eager, waiting hands is one of the joys of being a mother.

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Two important things to teach a child: to do and to do without.

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Obstinacy in children is like a kite; it is kept up just as long as we pull against it.

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