79 Quotes by 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.

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

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age.Nothing does --- except wrinkles.It's true,some wines improves with age.But only if the grapes were good in the first place

The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

In response to a letter regarding the writer's lack of religious belief: The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.

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.

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.

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.

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