Quotes from Abigail Van Buren

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.

TRUE, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

If you want a place in the sun, you've got to expect a few blisters.

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

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

Women who miscalculate are called mothers.

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

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.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!

Fight fire with fire, and all you'll end up with is ashes.

Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!

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

Women who miscalculate are called mothers.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

A 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 improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.