While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENMaturity 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.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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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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So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off your mouth? Well, that was yesterday. Today is a brand-new day with a clean slate, so forget yesterday!
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Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
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The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.
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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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Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
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There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.
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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
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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 we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
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Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.
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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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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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Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.
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