So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
ABIGAIL VAN BURENIn Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
-
-
Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
How should they answer?
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don’t live up to the expectations we have of them.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
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.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
If you don’t value what you have, you’re sure to lose it.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
Kissing power is stronger than will power.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
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.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it’s an undo-it-yourself project.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
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.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
You are what you are when nobody is looking.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
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.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
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!
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It’s cruel, it’s brutal, it’s inhumane, and most people don’t want it.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to “prove their love” like a moose needs a hat rack.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
I can’t think of a more potent combination than God and a good lawyer.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
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.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
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.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN