Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENIf you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
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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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If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.
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You are what you are when nobody is looking.
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Kids grow up awfully fast these days,”she said. “You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.
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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 almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself
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If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
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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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There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.
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Kissing power is stronger than will power.
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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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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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So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
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The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.
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A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it’s an undo-it-yourself project.
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Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.
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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 advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
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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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Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.
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Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you’re prepared to lose.
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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
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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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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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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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