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 purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
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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Kids grow up awfully fast these days,”she said. “You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.
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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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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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A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it’s an undo-it-yourself project.
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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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It’s true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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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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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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In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.
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While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
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The 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.
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Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
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