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 BURENAccept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.
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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So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off your mouth? Well, that was yesterday. Today is a brand-new day with a clean slate, so forget yesterday!
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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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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 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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Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don’t live up to the expectations we have of them.
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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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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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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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A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
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Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.
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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 less you talk, the more you’re listened to.
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You are what you are when nobody is looking.
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The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
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