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.
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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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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Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.
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The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
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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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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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Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to “prove their love” like a moose needs a hat rack.
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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 you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.
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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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The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
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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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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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If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
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