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.
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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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
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How should they answer?
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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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So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
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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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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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The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
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You are what you are when nobody is looking.
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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 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 you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
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If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
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Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you’re prepared to lose.
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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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Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores – it’s called partnership.
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