If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENMaturity 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.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you’re prepared to lose.
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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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It’s true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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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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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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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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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
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So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
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There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.
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Kissing power is stronger than will power.
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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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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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A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it’s an undo-it-yourself project.
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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.
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