Abigail Van Buren Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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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.”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Inspirational #Children #Parenting
“If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Inspirational #Motivational #Family
“Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more...”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Hate
“A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Museums #Religion #Church
“Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Loneliness #Being Alone #Poverty
“A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Inspirational #Habit #Disappear
“Women who miscalculate are called mothers.”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Mother #Motherhood
“While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Risk #Taste #Fruit
“If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Inspirational #Want #Sun
“If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Life #Success #Business
“You could move.' ---"Dear Abby" responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Couple #Moving #Gay
“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.”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Inspiring #Mom #Dad
“The less you talk, the more you're listened to.”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Love #Life #Friendship
“True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Funny #Education #Learning
“People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Inspirational #Peace #Memorable
“Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Fighting #Fire #Ashes
“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.”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Water #May #Pay
“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.”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Jobs #Maturity #Bears
“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.”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Sex #Wall #Business
“Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Disappointment #Women #Love Is
“I agree that ***** laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of ***** -- if it's prescribed by a physician. I cannot understand why the federal government should interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, nor why it would ignore the will of a majority of voters who have legally approved such legislation.”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Marijuana #Doctors #Government
“You are what you are when nobody is looking.”
-- Abigail Van Buren
“Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Oil #Useless #Matter
“It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Littles #Dirt #Impossible
“It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Wine #Age #Firsts
“In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Biblical #Men #Wife
“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!”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Yesterday #New Day #Mouths
“The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Inspirational #Motivational #Differences
“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.”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Animal #People #Nails
“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.”
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Inspirational #Wisdom #Wine

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