Abigail Van Buren quote: "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."

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. -Abigail Van Bure...
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...
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, There you are and th...
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b...
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

If we could sell our experience for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

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

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wine...
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

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

Maturity is: The ability to stick with a job until it's finished; The ability to do a job without be...
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

The best index to a person's character is
(a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, an...
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

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

Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

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

In a letter to "Dear Abby" a reader complained that a gay couple was
moving in across the stree...
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" ins...
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

If you want a place in the sun, you had better be prepared to put up with a few blisters
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to "prove their love" like a moose needs a hat...
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

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

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us we'd be millionaires
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, "There you are" and ...
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

In a letter to "Dear Abby" a reader complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and...
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

Fear less; hope more. Eat less; chew more. Talk less; say more. Hate less; love more.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

Maturity is: The ability to stick with a job until it's finished; The ability to do a job without be...
ABIGAIL BUREN

In a letter to "Dear Abby" a reader complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and...
ABIGAIL BUREN

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us we'd be millionaires
ABIGAIL BUREN

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

Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to "prove their love" like a moose needs a hat...
ABIGAIL BUREN

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b...
ABIGAIL BUREN

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

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

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
ABIGAIL BUREN

Fear less; hope more. Eat less; chew more. Talk less; say more. Hate less; love more.
ABIGAIL BUREN

The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies.
MARTIN VAN BUREN

There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most hone...
MARTIN VAN BUREN

With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between t...
MARTIN VAN BUREN

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.
MARTIN VAN BUREN

We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of o...
MARTIN VAN BUREN

It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Natio...
MARTIN VAN BUREN

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty t...
MARTIN VAN BUREN

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disburseme...
MARTIN VAN BUREN

The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.
MARTIN VAN BUREN

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and...
MARTIN VAN BUREN

Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always...
MARTIN VAN BUREN

In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its be...
MARTIN VAN BUREN

With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussio...
MARTIN VAN BUREN

On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and whic...
MARTIN VAN BUREN

Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, ha...
MARTIN VAN BUREN

Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will ...
MARTIN VAN BUREN

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men . . . in receiving from the people the sacred trust con...
MARTIN VAN BUREN

I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success.
MARTIN VAN BUREN

The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his c...
MARTIN VAN BUREN

Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - th...
MARTIN VAN BUREN

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confide...
MARTIN VAN BUREN

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes,...
MARTIN VAN BUREN

It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the ap...
MARTIN VAN BUREN

Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in rel...
MARTIN VAN BUREN

No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.
MARTIN VAN BUREN

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.
MARTIN VAN BUREN

To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and end...
MARTIN VAN BUREN

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity
MARTIN VAN BUREN

No evil can result from its (slavery's) inhibition more pernicious than its toleration
MARTIN VAN BUREN

Between Russia and the United States sentiments of good will continue to be mutually cherished.
MARTIN VAN BUREN

it is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didnt
MARTIN VAN BUREN

Errors were doubtless committed on all sides, delusions set on foot which there was not time to diss...
MARTIN VAN BUREN

In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about lib...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I do get around. Geographically, that is.
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could ca...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all sha...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

My whole drive is to make sure that music is a common space where we search for beauty and share it....
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I really believe in the power of music.
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should thin...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time w...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I le...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism f...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I believe in music because it has the power of change.
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ing...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I do see music as complete refuge. It's a universal home, complete common ground between everyon...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And ...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I ...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajec...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

We set up a small bitcoin and ethereum mining operation... that miraculously now is actually making ...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

I'm a believer. I'm one of the few standing before you today from a large financial services...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentall...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

We need to come up with use cases for this technology that drive clear benefits for individuals and ...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

When computer systems cause errors, you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO - the 'not in good orde...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investme...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

I love this stuff - bitcoin, ethereum, blockchain technology - and what the future holds.
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

I like analyzing and managing large-scale transaction processing platforms, record-keeping administr...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organizatio...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

Even a small reduction in errors and rework can have a significant impact.
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When t...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals be...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might b...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not b...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

At the end of the day, you know yourself best.
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

I love everybody. I think my totem animal is a Labrador Retriever.
ABIGAIL DISNEY

Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives,...
ABIGAIL DISNEY

I've heard people say in the U.N. community among mediators they don't like women as mediato...
ABIGAIL DISNEY

When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a ...
ABIGAIL DISNEY

I was a bit of a lost lamb in my twenties, trying to find my higher calling.
ABIGAIL DISNEY

We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only ...
ABIGAIL DISNEY

There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - e...
ABIGAIL DISNEY

The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be...
ABIGAIL DISNEY

My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified ...
ABIGAIL DISNEY

When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.
ABIGAIL DISNEY

Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.
ABIGAIL DISNEY

Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
ABIGAIL DISNEY

The hardest thing in the world, I now know, is to hold in your head that it is okay to think that yo...
ABIGAIL DISNEY

When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, thi...
ABIGAIL DISNEY

News reports don't look at the land that existed before a war and the land that exists after a w...
ABIGAIL DISNEY

I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful ab...
ABIGAIL DISNEY

The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling the...
ABIGAIL DISNEY

I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

Well, my brother started acting before I did.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your l...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I would love to do a 'Scream'-type movie.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I'm pretty boring.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I really like to cook.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out th...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I never want to play the same character twice. I like to do different roles. I have fun with that.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind o...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I'd love to work with Michelle Williams. I think that she's incredible. She's such a gre...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from the...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I like to have sleepovers.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I love Chicago.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I love animated movies in general. I like making them.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I'd like to do more TV; TV is completely different than working in movies in a lot of ways, it&#...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's ...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I made my first movie when I was five.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

What's my favourite food? One you order out.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of ...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

It's cheesy, but having a pimple or a bad hair day isn't going to matter in five years. I do...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, th...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
ABIGAIL ADAMS

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflic...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if the...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Great necessities call forth great leaders. -Abigail Adams.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

He was basically not sorry for the fact that Tanzanians were killed, that it was described as part o...
ABIGAIL PERKINS

He really didn't like that soldiers were in Saudi Arabia, the Holy Land. He said his target was the ...
ABIGAIL PERKINS

He said he was very happy. He stated Allah would take care of them.
ABIGAIL PERKINS

It sent a message to America, because bombings were the only way Americans would listen.
ABIGAIL PERKINS

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.
ABIGAIL PERKINS

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion,...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world
ABIGAIL ADAMS

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting poi...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the r...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must ...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person k...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or th...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

I acknowledge myself a unitarian
ABIGAIL ADAMS

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put s...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are f...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion,...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion,...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride...
ABIGAIL SPENCER

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. A...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated,...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

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.

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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.

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