Top 100 Ann Landers Quotes
#1. No one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it - and sometimes one of them doesn't know.
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#2. A husband is a man who wishes he had as much fun when he goes on business trips as his wife thinks he does.
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#3. Never let an opportunity pass to give a well-deserved compliment.
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#4. The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
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#5. 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.
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#6. Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
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#7. 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.
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#8. One of the best ways to measure people is how they behave when something free is offered.
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#9. One trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out like fun.
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#10. More divorces start in the bedroom than in any other room in the house.
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#11. If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else.
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#12. A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.
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#13. No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
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#14. 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.
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#15. When a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself.
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#16. Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking what a fire hydrant feels about dogs.
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#19. Some people believe that holding on and hanging there are signs of strength, but there are times in life when it takes much more strength just to let go.
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#20. Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.
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#21. There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, What happened?
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#22. An open marriage is nature's way of telling you that you need a divorce.
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#23. Make somebody happy today, and mind your own business
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#24. One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.
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#25. I was naive, but I certainly was not duplicitous.
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#26. Maintaining self-respect in the face of a devastating experience is of prime importance.
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#27. We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.
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#28. I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.
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#29. Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners.
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#30. 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.
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#31. Are you better off with him or without him?
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#32. People have one year after the wedding to send a gift. Thank-you notes must be written immediately. If you don't receive an acknowledgment within three months, phone and ask if it was received. If the bride and groom are embarrassed, fine. They deserve to be.
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#33. Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
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#34. Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists.
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#35. It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.
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#36. 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.
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#37. 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.
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#38. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
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#39. Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.
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#40. A happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.
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#41. If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel.
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#42. Some women have the best husbands. Others make the best of the husbands they have.
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#43. 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.
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#44. Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.
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#45. A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.
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#46. The true measure of a person is how they treat someone who can do them aboslutely no good
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#47. Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original.
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#48. Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
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#49. Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.
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#50. When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
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#51. 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.
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#52. Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.
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#53. 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.
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#54. 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.
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#56. My personal recipe for success is- Do what you love and don't look at the clock.
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#58. No one can take advantage of you without your permission.
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#59. 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.
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#60. The minute more than two people know a secret, it is no longer a secret.
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#61. 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.
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#62. Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another check-out line.
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#63. One of the characteristics of the young is "I want it now."
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#64. People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
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#65. I made up my mind when I was 15 years old that I would never smoke or drink. I have kept that pledge to myself, and it was one of the smartest decisions I ever made.
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#66. Assume nothing. Inside every dumb blond there may be a very smart brunette.
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#67. Trouble is not a sign of inadequacy, stupidity or inferiority, but rather an inescapable part of life - proof that you are a card-carrying member of the human race.
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#68. Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.
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#70. Some people take pleasure in regaling one and all with details of their poor health. They are happy to give an organ recital to anyone who will listen.
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#71. Remember, it takes two to make an argument. The one who is wrong is the one who will be doing most of the talking.
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#72. Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. Immature people spend their lives exploring endless possibilities and then doing nothing. Action requires courage. Without courage, little is accomplished.
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#73. Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals because nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.
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#74. All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
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#75. A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement.
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#76. Life is rough for everyone ... Life isn't always fair. Whatever it is that hits the fan, its never evenly distributed - some always tend to get more of it than others.
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#77. Pity the poor millionaire. He'll never know the thrill of paying that final installment.
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#78. Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?
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#79. Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past.
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#80. I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.
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#81. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
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#82. 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.
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#83. Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.
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#84. 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
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#85. Most of us would be willing to pay as we go if we could just finish paying for where we've been.
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#86. You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.
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#87. Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.
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#88. Guilt is a pollutant and we don't need any more of it in the world.
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#89. Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
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#90. Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.
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#91. The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.
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#92. In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.
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#93. 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.
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#94. 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.
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#96. All marriages are happy, it's living together afterward that's tough.
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#97. 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.
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#98. The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.
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#99. Strong role models and unconditional love can heal even the most emotionally impoverished person, and that goes for adults as well as youngsters.
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#100. Maturity is perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until it is finished.
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