The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENLoneliness is the ultimate poverty.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores – it’s called partnership.
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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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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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The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.
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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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If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.
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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
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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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Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.
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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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There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.
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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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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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It’s true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
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