Ann Landers Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Strong role models and unconditional love can heal even the most emotionally impoverished person, and that goes for adults as well as youngsters. — Ann Landers

At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other. — Ann Landers

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

Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could not find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you do not think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You will look 10 years younger. Do not be afraid to say, I love you. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world. — Ann Landers

Maturity is the ability to harness your abilities and your energies and do more than is expected. The mature person refuses to settle for mediocrity. He/she would rather aim high and miss the mark than low-and make it. — Ann Landers

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

No one can take advantage of you without your permission. — Ann Landers

Women's magazines continue to print 'helpful' articles on How to Hang on to Your Husband while thousands of wives write to me and complain that 'hanging is too good for 'em. — Ann Landers

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. — Ann Landers

It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later. — Ann Landers

Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change. — Ann Landers

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet. — Ann Landers

Never let an opportunity pass to give a well-deserved compliment. — Ann Landers

Class is real. It can't be faked. — Ann Landers

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. — Ann Landers

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most. — Ann Landers

Are you better off with him or without him? — Ann Landers

Don't indulge in gossip ... People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves. — Ann Landers

My personal recipe for success is- Do what you love and don't look at the clock. — Ann Landers

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

There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, What happened? — Ann Landers

One of the best ways to measure people is how they behave when something free is offered. — Ann Landers

A happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset. — Ann Landers

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

Imagine 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

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. — Ann Landers

Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking what a fire hydrant feels about dogs. — Ann Landers

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one. — Ann Landers

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. — Ann Landers

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. — Ann Landers

Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice. — Ann Landers

Some people take pleasure in regaling one and all with details of their poor health. They are happy to give an organ recital to anyone who will listen. — Ann Landers

Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them. — Ann Landers

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

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings. — Ann Landers

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised. — Ann Landers

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 Landers

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

I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is. — Ann Landers

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

Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley. — Ann Landers

One of the characteristics of the young is "I want it now." — Ann Landers

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

Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, let's say, those who lunch at La Grenouille and Le Cirque. — Ann Landers

A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement. — Ann Landers

People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude. — Ann Landers

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

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. — Ann Landers

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

The minute more than two people know a secret, it is no longer a secret. — Ann Landers

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. — Ann Landers

If criticism is needed, do it tactfully. Don't use a sledgehammer when a fly swatter will do the job. — Ann Landers

Most of us would be willing to pay as we go if we could just finish paying for where we've been. — Ann Landers

If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else. — Ann Landers

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership. — Ann Landers

The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement. — Ann Landers

A husband is a man who wishes he had as much fun when he goes on business trips as his wife thinks he does. — Ann Landers

Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser. — Ann Landers

Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals because nobody wants to read the small print in dreams. — Ann Landers

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. — Ann Landers

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough. — Ann Landers

It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others. — Ann Landers

Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so." — Ann Landers

Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another check-out line. — Ann Landers

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead. — Ann Landers

The true measure of a person is how they treat someone who can do them aboslutely no good — Ann Landers

No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic. — Ann Landers

Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners. — Ann Landers

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us. — Ann Landers

You're all you've got. — Ann Landers

Being interested is more important than being interesting. — Ann Landers

Guilt is a pollutant and we don't need any more of it in the world. — Ann Landers

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good. — Ann Landers

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

Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later. — Ann Landers

Trouble is not a sign of inadequacy, stupidity or inferiority, but rather an inescapable part of life - proof that you are a card-carrying member of the human race. — Ann Landers

People of integrity expect to be believed. They also know time will prove them right and are willing to wait. — Ann Landers

You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat. — Ann Landers

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. — Ann Landers

The real question is why are millions of people so unhappy, so bored, so unfulfilled, that they are willing to drink, snort, inject or inhale any substance that might blot out reality and give them a bit of temporary relief. — Ann Landers

When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate. — Ann Landers

Life is rough for everyone ... Life isn't always fair. Whatever it is that hits the fan, its never evenly distributed - some always tend to get more of it than others. — Ann Landers

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. — Ann Landers

Grown-up people can wait. — Ann Landers

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. — Ann Landers

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

Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened? — Ann Landers

Maturity is perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until it is finished. — Ann Landers

One trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out like fun. — Ann Landers

When a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself. — Ann Landers

If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife. — Ann Landers

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

Make somebody happy today, and mind your own business — Ann Landers

Some people believe that holding on and hanging there are signs of strength, but there are times in life when it takes much more strength just to let go. — Ann Landers

All marriages are happy, it's living together afterward that's tough. — Ann Landers

Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the day. — Ann Landers

A 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 Landers

Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes. — Ann Landers