Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENNever advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENFear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENIn Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENThe lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENIf you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENThe 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 BURENThere is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENYou are what you are when nobody is looking.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENYou 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 BURENA church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENWisdom 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 BURENMaturity 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 BURENHow should they answer?
ABIGAIL VAN BURENLoneliness is the ultimate poverty.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENReligion, 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 BURENIf you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.
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