Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
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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Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores – it’s called partnership.
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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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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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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
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I agree that marijuana laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of marijuana – if it’s prescribed by a physician.
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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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How should they answer?
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Some People are more turned on by money than they are by love. In one respect they’re alike. They’re both wonderful as long as they last.
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Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
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If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
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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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Kissing power is stronger than will power.
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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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If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
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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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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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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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Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to “prove their love” like a moose needs a hat rack.
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Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you’re prepared to lose.
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A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it’s an undo-it-yourself project.
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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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Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.
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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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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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The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
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So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
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