Abigail Van Buren
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Life
Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.Collection: Hate
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.Collection: Jobs
A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.Collection: Inspirational
Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.Collection: Disappointment
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.Collection: Inspirational
Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.Collection: Self Esteem
The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.Collection: Inspirational
Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!Collection: Fighting
For many of us we are always wanting more - we would be happier if we had such and such. Maybe we should pause for a moment and hear what some people in the third world countries would like to make them happier. 1. Having enough to eat so when you go to sleep at night your stomach doesn't ach. 2. Having shoes on your feet and any kind of clothing to keep the cold out. 3. Having a roof over your head. 4. Having the hope that you'll be lucky enough to get some kind of an education. 5. Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Couple
If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.Collection: Inspirational
The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.Collection: Doubt
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!Collection: Yesterday
If you don't value what you have, you're sure to lose it.Collection: Women
How should they answer?Collection: Life
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.Collection: Inspirational
In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.Collection: Biblical
Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.Collection: War
SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty"Collection: Lonely
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.Collection: Women
Kissing power is stronger than will power.Collection: Love
Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.Collection: Dream
While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.Collection: Risk
It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.Collection: Wine
I can't think of a more potent combination than God and a good lawyer.Collection: Thinking
There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.Collection: Misery
If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.Collection: Sex
Women who miscalculate are called mothers.Collection: Family
I agree that marijuana laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of marijuana -- if it's prescribed by a physician. I cannot understand why the federal government should interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, nor why it would ignore the will of a majority of voters who have legally approved such legislation.Collection: Marijuana
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 times. She's pretty stiff competition for the plain young matron who's overweight and under-financed. If there is going to be friction in this relationship, it could start from envy and resentment in the younger woman. But Father Time is on her side, even if Mother Nature played her a dirty trickCollection: Mother
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 of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It's cruel, it's brutal, it's inhumane, and most people don't want it.Collection: Animal
Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.Collection: Oil
Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.Collection: Girl
Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores - it's called partnership.Collection: Husband
Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to "prove their love" like a moose needs a hat rack.Collection: Girl