"Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!" — Abigail Van Buren
"Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!"
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Abigail Van Buren
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41 Quotes by Abigail Van Buren
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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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Kids grow up awfully fast these days,"she said. "You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no…
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SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty"
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Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
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A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.
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It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first…
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For many of us we are always wanting more - we would be happier if we had such and such.…
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Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more...
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While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
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So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off…
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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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It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's…
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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise…
— Anne Baxter
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
— Thomas Browne
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
— Leonard Cohen
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm…
— Pablo Neruda
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Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will…
— George W. Bush
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow…
— Tennessee Williams
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
— Martial
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When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle…
— Samuel Rutherford
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