Quote

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

Abigail Van Buren

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Abigail Van Buren
Fire
Fighting
Peace
Abby
Inspirational
Ashes
Ends
Memorable
People
Caring
Usually
Fight

More quotes by Abigail Van Buren

Image
Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
Abigail Van Buren
Image
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
Abigail Van Buren
Image
The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
Abigail Van Buren
Image
It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.
Abigail Van Buren
Image
Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.
Abigail Van Buren
Image
Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you're supervised or not finish a job once it's started carry money without spending it and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
Abigail Van Buren
Image
O, heavenly Father: we thank thee for food and remember the hungry. We thank thee for health and remember the sick. We thank thee for friends and remember the friendless. We thank thee for freedom and remember the enslaved. May these remembrances stir us to service, That thy gifts to us may be used for others. Amen.
Abigail Van Buren
Image
Some People are more turned on by money than they are by love. In one respect they're alike. They're both wonderful as long as they last.
Abigail Van Buren
Image
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.
Abigail Van Buren
Image
Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.
Abigail Van Buren
Image
Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to prove their love like a moose needs a hat rack.
Abigail Van Buren
Image
Kissing power is stronger than will power.
Abigail Van Buren
Image
Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.
Abigail Van Buren
Image
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
Abigail Van Buren
Image
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.
Abigail Van Buren
Image
I can't think of a more potent combination than God and a good lawyer.
Abigail Van Buren
Image
While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
Abigail Van Buren
Image
SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, Loneliness is the ultimate poverty
Abigail Van Buren
Image
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.
Abigail Van Buren
Image
It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It's cruel, it's brutal, it's inhumane, and most people don't want it.
Abigail Van Buren