Abigail Van Buren Quotes

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• The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
• 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.
• SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty"
• Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
• A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.
• 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…
• For many of us we are always wanting more - we would be happier if we had such and such. Maybe we should pause for…
• Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more...
• While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
• 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…
• In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.
• It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
• Fighting fire with fire only gets you 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.
• The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
• Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
• Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.
• How should they answer?
• Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.
• 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…

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