Dear Abbey Quotations

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.

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.

The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.

Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.

Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores - it's called partnership.

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

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

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.

Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in harmony with her times. She's pretty stiff competition for the plain young matron who's overweight and under-financed. If there is going to be friction in this relationship, it could start from envy and resentment in the younger woman. But Father Time is on her side, even if Mother Nature played her a dirty trick

SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty"