The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENA bad habit never disappears miraculously, it’s an undo-it-yourself project.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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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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So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
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Kissing power is stronger than will power.
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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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Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.
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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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How should they answer?
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The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.
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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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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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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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Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.
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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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You are what you are when nobody is looking.
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