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
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, “The most comforting
words of all; this, too, shall pass.”
– Ann Landers
Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a
supermarket when the cashier opens another check-out line.
– Ann Landers
Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive,
tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the day.
– Ann Landers
No one has the right to destroy another person’s belief by demanding empirical evidence.
– Ann Landers
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
Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be
called dentists.
– Ann Landers
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
Women complain about sex more often than men. Their gripes fall into two major categories:
1. Not enough. 2. Too much.
– Ann Landers
Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other
peoples mistakes.
– Ann Landers
When life’s problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping
with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
– Ann Landers
Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
– Ann Landers
Some women have the best husbands. Others make the best of the husbands they have.
– Ann Landers
No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.
– Ann Landers
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness – a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her
foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.
– Ann Landers
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
There are really only three types of people: Those who make things happen, those who watch
things happen, and those who say, “What happened?”
– Ann Landers
If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you’ll be married to a man who cheats on his
wife.
– Ann Landers