Top 143 Quotes & Sayings by 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

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

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

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

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

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.

You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

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

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.

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.

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

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

Class is real. It can't be faked.

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

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.

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

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.

Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.

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

Being interested is more important than being interesting.

Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.

The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Many peo­ple know the price of every­thing and the value of noth­ing

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

One 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.

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