36 Quotes by Ann Landers
Ann Landers was the pen name of Esther "Eppie" Pauline Lederer, an American advice columnist who wrote a daily column that appeared in newspapers across the United States for over 40 years. Landers answered readers' questions on a wide variety of topics, from relationship advice to etiquette to health and wellness. Her straightforward and practical advice made her a beloved figure to millions of readers. (Bio)
Ann Landers Quotes
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.
In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves. (Meaning)
If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else.
The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
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.
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.
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.
Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
No one can take advantage of you without your permission.
When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.
Being interested is more important than being interesting.
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. (Meaning)
Don't indulge in gossip. ... People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves.
The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.
People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.
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.
My personal recipe for success is- Do what you love and don't look at the clock.
It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.
Never let an opportunity pass to give a well-deserved compliment.
One trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out like fun.
No one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it - and sometimes one of them doesn't know.
Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.
A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement.
One of the best ways to measure people is how they behave when something free is offered.
Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past.
The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement.
A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.
― Ann Landers Quotes
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