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Ann Landers
American
Journalist
About the author
Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
Ann Landers,
American
Journalist
#Life
#Class
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,
American
Journalist
#Want
#People
#Home
#Trouble
#Party
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,
American
Journalist
#Success
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,
American
Journalist
#Love
#Art
#Marriage
#Battle
#Principles
#Partnership
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,
American
Journalist
#Poor
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
Ann Landers,
American
Journalist
#Life
#Words
#Trouble
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Ann Landers,
American
Journalist
#Admiration
You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.
Ann Landers,
American
Journalist
#Needs
Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Ann Landers,
American
Journalist
#People
#Nothing
#Today
#Value
There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
Ann Landers,
American
Journalist
#Success
#Honor
#Defeat
No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
Ann Landers,
American
Journalist
#Right
#Belief
I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.
Ann Landers,
American
Journalist
#Feet
I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.
Ann Landers,
American
Journalist
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.
Ann Landers,
American
Journalist
#Life
#Love
If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.
Ann Landers,
American
Journalist
#Wife
#Man
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,
American
Journalist
#Mind
#Measure
Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.
Ann Landers,
American
Journalist
#Mistakes
#May
#Wind
#Advice
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Ann Landers,
American
Journalist
#Admiration
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
Ann Landers,
American
Journalist
#Trouble
#Thought
#May
#Talking
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,
American
Journalist
#Being
#Money
#Job
#Duty
#Injustice
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
Ann Landers,
American
Journalist
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
Ann Landers,
American
Journalist
#Life
#Future
#Lies
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,
American
Journalist
#People
#Country
#Friends
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Ann Landers,
American
Journalist
#People
#Work
#Hard work
People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.
Ann Landers,
American
Journalist
#People
#Care
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Ann Landers,
American
Journalist
#People
#Sorrow
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
Ann Landers,
American
Journalist
#Marriage
#Sunset
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
Ann Landers,
American
Journalist
#People
#Will
#Television
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,
American
Journalist
#Love
#Understanding
#Loyalty
#Perfection
#Quiet
#Confidence
#Friendship
#Fire
#Sharing