If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENPsychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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You are what you are when nobody is looking.
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So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
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Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!
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How should they answer?
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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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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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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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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
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If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
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Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores – it’s called partnership.
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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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Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you’re prepared to lose.
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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.
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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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