If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENIf we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!
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So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
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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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While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
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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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Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.
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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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If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.
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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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I can’t think of a more potent combination than God and a good lawyer.
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A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
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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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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 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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