Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENThe 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.
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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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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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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It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from ‘Dear Abby’ instead of going to Mom and Dad.
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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
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Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
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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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If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.
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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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Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.
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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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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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There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.
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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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