Ann Landers quotes page 1

1918-2002, American advice columnist

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

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it
would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life. Look it squarely in the eye, and
say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me."
Ann Landers

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

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

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

Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.
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

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
Ann Landers

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

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

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

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

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

If you want to catch a 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

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

One out of four people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your three closest
friends and if they seem okay, then you're the one.
Ann Landers

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

It is far better to be alone than to wish you were.
Ann Landers

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

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

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

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

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