If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENKissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to “prove their love” like a moose needs a hat rack.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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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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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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There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.
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Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to “prove their love” like a moose needs a hat rack.
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You are what you are when nobody is looking.
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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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If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
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If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
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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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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 bad habit never disappears miraculously, it’s an undo-it-yourself project.
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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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Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
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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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