TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation.
Ann LandersKnow when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.
Ann LandersA cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco, and drugs, with a small fire on one end and a large fool at the other. Some of its chief benefits are cancer of the lips and stomach, softening of the brain, funeral procesions, and families shrouded in gloom and grief. Although a great many people know this, they still smoke in order to appear sophisticated.
Ann LandersOne out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closest friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.
Ann LandersImagine you had a bank that each morning credited your account with $1,440 - with one condition: whatever part of the $1,440 you failed to use during the day would be erased from your account, and no balance would be carried over. What would you do? You'd draw out every cent every day and use it to your best advantage. Well, you do have such a bank, and its name is time. Every morning, this bank credits you with 1,440 minutes. And it writes off as forever lost whatever portion you have failed to invest to good purpose.
Ann Landers