Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Abigail Van Buren
Unlike
Therapy
Oil
Forced
Useless
Patient
Uncooperative
Matter
Psychotherapy
Work
Psychiatry
More quotes by Abigail Van Buren
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
Abigail Van Buren
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
Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!
Abigail Van Buren
Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to prove their love like a moose needs a hat rack.
Abigail Van Buren
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
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
It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Abigail Van Buren
The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
Abigail Van Buren
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Abigail Van Buren
It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself
Abigail Van Buren
In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.
Abigail Van Buren
If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.
Abigail Van Buren
So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off your mouth? Well, that was yesterday. Today is a brand-new day with a clean slate, so forget yesterday!
Abigail Van Buren
SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, Loneliness is the ultimate poverty
Abigail Van Buren
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
Abigail Van Buren
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
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
Abigail Van Buren
Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
Abigail Van Buren
Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
Abigail Van Buren
Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.
Abigail Van Buren