Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENWhile forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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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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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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The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
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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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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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Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores – it’s called partnership.
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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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Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.
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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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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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It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself
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So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
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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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Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!
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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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