Abigail Van Buren Famous Quotes
"Fight fire with fire, and all you'll end up with is ashes."
"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."
"It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister."
Abigail Van Buren Quotations
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
Lucretius
"Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself."
Oprah Winfrey
"You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences."
Constantine Peter Cavafy
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Sioux
American Indian Proverb
Of ex-President Eisenhower at the Republican convention of 1964 Reading a speech with his usual sense of discovery.
Gore Vidal
"Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant."
Lucretius
"When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured."
English Proverb
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.
Lao Tzu
"What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven."
Lucretius