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Marcelene Cox
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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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“He sharpened his wits on the edge of her nerves.”
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“She was always in good rumor.”
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“She talks with deliberation, as if pressing out a ruffle on each word.”
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“It is never the other woman's dust that annoys, just our own.”
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“Civilization is only the advance from shoeless toes to toeless shoes.”
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“It is a mystery why adults expect perfection from children. Few grownups can get through a whole day without making a mistake.”
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“Eating without conversation is only stoking.”
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“A child who constantly hears 'Don't,' 'Be careful,' 'Stop' will eventually be overtaken by schoolmates, business associates, and rival suitors.”
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“Parenthood: that state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage.”
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“To some women, housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.”
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“Weather means more when you have a garden: there's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your lettuce and green beans.”
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“Children whose problems aren't recognized become problem children.”
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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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“A child can never be better than what his parents think of him.”
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“Life is like a camel: you can make it do anything except back up.”
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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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“Politeness in an individual is as necessary as paint on both sides of a fence, for a person, like a fence, faces out as well as in.”
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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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“A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way.”
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“When a telephone rings, the average man settles deeper into his chair with the observation, 'I wonder who that can be?'”
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“He looked as if his mind constantly shifted from one foot to the other.”
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“Three stages in a parent's life: nutrition, dentition, tuition.”
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“It is all right to say exactly what you think if you have learned to think exactly.”
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“It's a wise father that knows his own child—hood.”
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“Raising children is like baking bread: it has to be a slow process or you end up with an overdone crust and an underdone interior.”
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“Heredity: the thing a child gets from the other side of the family.”
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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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“Heredity may be the Cellophane wrapper around a child which environment fails to penetrate.”
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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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“A child does not thrive on what he is prevented from doing, but on what he actually does.”
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“To give children everything is often worse than giving them nothing.”
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“Children always take the line of most persistence.”
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“Piecrust is like a wild animal; when it sees fear in the eyes of its tamer it goes out of control.”
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“Invitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”
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“A day so soft you could wrap a baby in it.”
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“Time: the one thing you take with you.”
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“No one is ever warmed by wool pulled over his eyes.”
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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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“When she knew a secret it no longer was.”
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“Why is it that when anything goes without saying, it never does?”
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“Too often in ironing out trouble someone gets scorched.”
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“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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“A bachelor is a man who can take a nap on top of a bedspread.”
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“Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it ends.”
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“Growing old is like riding in a train: we seem to sit still while the landscape moves by.”
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“The ultimate mistake in discipline is the ultimatum.”
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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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“Where there's a will there's a way, and where there's a child there's a will.”
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“Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.”
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“Youth is stranger than fiction.”
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“All the successful parents I have observed seem to possess one common quality: that of being able to visit with their children.”
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“After you have children, the economic law reverses to Demand and Supply.”
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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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“To heir is human.”
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“Trouble, like the hill ahead, straightens out when you advance upon it.”
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“An adolescent doesn't always know where he's going; only that he isn't there.”
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“When a person who is fat says it runs in the family, you can be pretty sure the family never did much running.”
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“The mark of a good parent is that he can have fun while being one.”
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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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“The test of being a good host is how well the departing guest likes himself.”
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“The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.”
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“'Under new management' may mean a baby has just been born.”
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“Whenever I try to recall that long-ago first day at school only one memory shines through: my father held my hand.”
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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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“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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“Supplementing an income may mean being more economical with the one you have.”
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“Two important things to teach a child: to do and to do without.”
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“Why is it that the person who needs no introduction usually gets the longest one?”
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“When raising rabbits, it doesn't take long to get double your bunny back.”
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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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“Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.”
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“The girl who marries for money may find herself in debt for life.”
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“Money enables a man to get along without an education, and education enables him to get along without money.”
Marcelene Cox, U.S. writer, humorist
(1900)
Full name: Marcelene Keister Cox