Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENIf 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.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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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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You are what you are when nobody is looking.
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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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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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If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
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Kissing power is stronger than will power.
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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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The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
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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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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 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 you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
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There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.
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Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.
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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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