The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
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.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it’s an undo-it-yourself project.
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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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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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The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.
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So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
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How should they answer?
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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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It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself
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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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Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to “prove their love” like a moose needs a hat rack.
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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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If you don’t value what you have, you’re sure to lose it.
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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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Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you’re prepared to lose.
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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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