Abigail Van Buren Quotes

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.

If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

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.

Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.

You are what you are when nobody is looking.

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.

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

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!

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

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

The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.

Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.

Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.

It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself

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.

Women who miscalculate are called mothers.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

If you don't value what you have, you're sure to lose it.

Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.

The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.

Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to "prove their love" like a moose needs a hat rack.

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.

Kissing power is stronger than will power.

I can't think of a more potent combination than God and a good lawyer.

Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.

How should they answer?

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

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

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.

There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.

In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.

A church is a hospital for sinners not a museum for saints.

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself.

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.

If you want a place in the sun you've got to put up with a few blisters.

The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age.Nothing does --- except wrinkles.It's true, some wines improves with age.But only if the grapes were good in the first place