If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENThe 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.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
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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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If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
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Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you’re prepared to lose.
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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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You are what you are when nobody is looking.
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Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!
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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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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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A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
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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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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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In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.
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If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
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So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
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