If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENCruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
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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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While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
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Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!
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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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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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A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it’s an undo-it-yourself project.
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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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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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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 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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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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Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you’re prepared to lose.
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