If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENMany husbands today pitch in to help with household chores – it’s called partnership.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
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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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So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
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You are what you are when nobody is looking.
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Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you’re prepared to lose.
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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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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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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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The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
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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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A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it’s an undo-it-yourself project.
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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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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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I agree that marijuana laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of marijuana – if it’s prescribed by a physician.
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