Kids grow up awfully fast these days,”she said. “You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENWisdom 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.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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You could move.’ —“Dear Abby” responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.
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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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If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
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It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself
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Kissing power is stronger than will power.
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While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
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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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In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.
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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 purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
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A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it’s an undo-it-yourself project.
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Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores – it’s called partnership.
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So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
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The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
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