Ann Landers Quotes

Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.

Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists.

Some women have the best husbands. Others make the best of the husbands they have.

Wake up and smell the coffee.

Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

No one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it - and sometimes one of them doesn't know.

A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.

A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.

I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.

More divorces start in the bedroom than in any other room in the house.

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

Parents do not owe their progeny an inheritance no matter how much money they have. One of the surest ways to produce loafers and freeloaders is to let children know that their future is assured.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.

Assume nothing. Inside every dumb blond there may be a very smart brunette.

What we steadily, consciously, habitually think we are, that we tend to become.

Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.

Some things get better with age, but after a certain point, the mind isn't among them.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

People, like water, seek their own level.

Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past.

You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.

Remember, it takes two to make an argument. The one who is wrong is the one who will be doing most of the talking.

Pity the poor millionaire. He'll never know the thrill of paying that final installment.