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.
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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There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.
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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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It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It’s cruel, it’s brutal, it’s inhumane, and most people don’t want it.
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If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.
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Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.
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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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You are what you are when nobody is looking.
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So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
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Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you’re prepared to lose.
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If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.
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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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It’s true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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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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Some People are more turned on by money than they are by love. In one respect they’re alike. They’re both wonderful as long as they last.
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I can’t think of a more potent combination than God and a good lawyer.
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