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.

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.

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.

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

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 have got to put up with a few blisters.

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

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

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