The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENIt’s true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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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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You are what you are when nobody is looking.
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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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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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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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I can’t think of a more potent combination than God and a good lawyer.
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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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A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
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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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Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to “prove their love” like a moose needs a hat rack.
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There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.
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Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.
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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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