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.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENNever advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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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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The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.
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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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Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.
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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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Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
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You are what you are when nobody is looking.
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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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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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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.
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The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
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A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it’s an undo-it-yourself project.
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It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from ‘Dear Abby’ instead of going to Mom and Dad.
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Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.
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