True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENWomen who miscalculate are called mothers.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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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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A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it’s an undo-it-yourself project.
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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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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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Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to “prove their love” like a moose needs a hat rack.
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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
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The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.
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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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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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If you don’t value what you have, you’re sure to lose it.
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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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Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
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A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
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The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
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