Abigail Van Buren Quotes

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.

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

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.

Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!

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

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

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

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

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.

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.

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

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!

It’s true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

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

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

The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.

You are what you are when nobody is looking.

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.

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

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

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