Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you’re prepared to lose.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENAccept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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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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There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.
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So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
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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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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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Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you’ve got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.
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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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Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
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If you don’t value what you have, you’re sure to lose it.
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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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The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.
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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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While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
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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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