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.
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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It’s true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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Some 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.
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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 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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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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If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
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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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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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Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
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Kissing power is stronger than will power.
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While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
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It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can’t speak for my twin sister.
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If you don’t value what you have, you’re sure to lose it.
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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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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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So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
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The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
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If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
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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.
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Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.
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Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores – it’s called partnership.
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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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Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.
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A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
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You are what you are when nobody is looking.
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A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it’s an undo-it-yourself project.
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