Best quotes by Ann Landers

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

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

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.

When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.

If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else.

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

A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.

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

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

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

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

Make somebody happy today, and mind your own business

It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.

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.

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.

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

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

People, like water, seek their own level.

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.

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

No person ever died by drowning in their own sweat.

A husband is a man who wishes he had as much fun when he goes on business trips as his wife thinks he does.

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

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.

Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. The mature person can face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort and defeat without collapsing or complaining. He/she knows he cannot have everything his/her own way every time. He/she is able to defer to circumstances, to other people-and to time. He/she knows when to compromise and is not too proud to do so.

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

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

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

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.

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

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.

Being interested is more important than being interesting.

Don't indulge in gossip. ... People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves.

When a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself.

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.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. ... Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future, and it doesn't brood over the past. It's the day-in and day-out chronicle of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and working toward common goals. 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.

What the majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis, it is not what you do for you children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

A cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco, and drugs, with a small fire on one end and a large fool at the other. Some of its chief benefits are cancer of the lips and stomach, softening of the brain, funeral procesions, and families shrouded in gloom and grief. Although a great many people know this, they still smoke in order to appear sophisticated.

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

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

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.

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

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead; that is where your future lies. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, What happened?

If at first you do succeed, try something harder.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

If you have a good name, if you are right more often than you are wrong, if your children respect you, if your grandchildren are glad to see you, if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble, if you can face your God and say "I have done my best," then you are a success.

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

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

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.

You're all you've got.

It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.

Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.

One of the characteristics of the young is "I want it now."

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

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

Love is friendship that has caught fire . . .

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

In recent years, there have been reports of people with twisted minds putting razor blades and poison in taffy apples and Halloween candy. It is no longer safe to let your child eat treats that come from strangers.

Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, let's say, those who lunch at La Grenouille and Le Cirque.

Maturity is the ability to harness your abilities and your energies and do more than is expected. The mature person refuses to settle for mediocrity. He/she would rather aim high and miss the mark than low-and make it.

Grown-up people can wait.

Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.