Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you’re prepared to lose.
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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While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
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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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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
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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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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 don’t value what you have, you’re sure to lose it.
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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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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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You are what you are when nobody is looking.
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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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Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
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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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So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
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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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