Abigail Van Buren famous quotes

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

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 Buren

#Life #Friendship #Family

Kissing power is stronger than will power.
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Love #Family #Happiness

It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Sister #Iowa #Twins

For many of us we are always wanting more - we would be happier if we had such and such. Maybe we should pause for a moment and hear what some people in the third world countries would like to make them happier. 1. Having enough to eat so when you go to sleep at night your stomach doesn't ach. 2. Having shoes on your feet and any kind of clothing to keep the cold out. 3. Having a roof over your head. 4. Having the hope that you'll be lucky enough to get some kind of an education. 5. Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Dream #Country #Believe

SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty"
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Lonely #Loneliness #Poverty

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.
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Inspirational #Motivational #Growing Up

Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores - it's called partnership.
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Husband #Women #Today

If you don't value what you have, you're sure to lose it.
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Women #Values

Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in harmony with her times. She's pretty stiff competition for the plain young matron who's overweight and under-financed. If there is going to be friction in this relationship, it could start from envy and resentment in the younger woman. But Father Time is on her side, even if Mother Nature played her a dirty trick
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Mother #Father #Dirty

How should they answer?
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Life #Answers #Should

Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Giving #Golfers #Ultimatum

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
-- Abigail Van Buren

#War #Married #Advise

The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Doubt #Certainty #Lack Of Faith

Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Girl #Sex #Jeans