Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you’re supervised or not; finish a job once it’s started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENKissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to “prove their love” like a moose needs a hat rack.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.
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Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does – except wrinkles. It’s true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.
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The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.
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Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you’ve got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.
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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
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It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can’t speak for my twin sister.
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Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
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Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.
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Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to “prove their love” like a moose needs a hat rack.
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The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
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If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
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I agree that marijuana laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of marijuana – if it’s prescribed by a physician.
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If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
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There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.
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