Abigail van Buren quotes

Nobody’s “old” anymore – they’ve just been around for a long time.
- Abigail Van Buren

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
- Abigail Van Buren

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

Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!
- Abigail Van Buren

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

If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
- Abigail Van Buren

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
- Abigail Van Buren

My parents came with nothing. They all came with nothing.
- Abigail Van Buren

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
- Abigail Van Buren

Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.
- Abigail Van Buren

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

Kissing power is stronger than will power.
- Abigail Van Buren

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.
- Abigail Van Buren

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
- Abigail Van Buren

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
- Abigail Van Buren

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
- Abigail Van Buren

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

Wisdom does not 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.
- Abigail Van Buren

There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.
- Abigail Van Buren

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

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
- Abigail Van Buren

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.
- Abigail Van Buren

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.
- Abigail Van Buren