Top 35 Abigail Van Buren Quotes
#1. The church is not a museum for saints it's a hospital for sinners.
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#2. 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.
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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.
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#7. A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.
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#9. Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.
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#11. Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores - it's called partnership.
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#12. If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
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#13. 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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#15. There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.
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#17. If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
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#18. 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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#20. I can't think of a more potent combination than God and a good lawyer.
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#21. Some People are more turned on by money than they are by love.
In one respect they're alike. They're both wonderful as long as they last.
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#22. 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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#24. In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.
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#25. It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.
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#28. There are 2 kinds of people in the world- those who walk into a room and say "There you are" and those who say, "Here I am!
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#29. In response to a letter regarding the writer's lack of religious belief:
The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
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#30. It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone
without getting a little on yourself
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#31. Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.
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#32. 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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#33. The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
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#34. While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
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#35. 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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