If you don’t value what you have, you’re sure to lose it.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENSo the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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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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If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
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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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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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Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.
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Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
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Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores – it’s called partnership.
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Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.
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It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can’t speak for my twin sister.
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A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
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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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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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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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Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you’re prepared to lose.
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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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