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.
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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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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
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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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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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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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The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
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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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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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So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
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Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores – it’s called partnership.
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Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you’re prepared to lose.
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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
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There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.
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