Best Ann Landers Quotes & Sayings

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

People have one year after the wedding to send a gift. Thank-you notes must be written immediately. If you don't receive an acknowledgment within three months, phone and ask if it was received. If the bride and groom are embarrassed, fine. They deserve to be. — Ann Landers

If you have a good name, if you are right more often than you are wrong, if your children respect you, if your grandchildren are glad to see you, if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble, if you can face your God and say "I have done my best," then you are a success. — 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

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

If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel. — 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

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

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

The adult who is constantly changing friends and changing mates is immature. He/she cannot stick it out because he/she has not grown up. — Ann Landers

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

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

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

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

Ann Landers said that you are addicted to sex if you have sex more than 3 times a day, and that you should seek professional help. I have news for Ann Landers: The only way I am going to get sex 3 times a day is if I seek professional help. — Jay Leno

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

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

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

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

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

In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves. — 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

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

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

You're all you've got. — Ann Landers

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence. — Ann Landers

Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original. — Ann Landers

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

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

Don't give up. Keep going. there is always a chance that you stumble onto something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down — Ann Landers

Did is a word of achievement,
Won't is a word of retreat,
Might is a word of bereavement,
Can't is a word of defeat,
Ought is a word of duty,
Try is a word each hour,
Will is a word of beauty,
Can is a word of power. — 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

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