Ann Landers Quotes

Are you better off with him or without him?

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

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

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.

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

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

Grown-up people can wait.

People, like water, seek their own level.

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

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

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

I was naive, but I certainly was not duplicitous.

Some men have no idea how to romance a woman. However, women who teach their husbands what they like will be well-rewarded.

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.

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

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

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

No person ever died by drowning in their own sweat.

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

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.

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

Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

If at first you do succeed, try something harder.

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

You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.

A happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.

An open marriage is nature's way of telling you that you need a divorce.

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.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but couldn't find the time.

Maintaining self-respect in the face of a devastating experience is of prime importance.

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