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 BURENSome 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.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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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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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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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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The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
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There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.
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Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you’re prepared to lose.
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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
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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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Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to “prove their love” like a moose needs a hat rack.
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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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The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
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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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If you don’t value what you have, you’re sure to lose it.
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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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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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