If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENWhile forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off your mouth? Well, that was yesterday. Today is a brand-new day with a clean slate, so forget yesterday!
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If you don’t value what you have, you’re sure to lose it.
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I can’t think of a more potent combination than God and a good lawyer.
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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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The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
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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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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
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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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The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.
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The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
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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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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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Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
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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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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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