Ann Landers
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.Collection: Moving
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.Collection: Pet
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.Collection: Success
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.Collection: Sympathy
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.Collection: Work
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.Collection: Work
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.Collection: Marriage
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.Collection: Money
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.Collection: Good
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.Collection: Future
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.Collection: Marriage
There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.Collection: Failure
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.Collection: Great
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.Collection: Home
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.
Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.
You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.
Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.
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.
If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.
People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.
I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.
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.
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.
Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.
Class is real. It can't be faked.
No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
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.Collection: Funny
In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.Collection: Inspirational
Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.Collection: Kindness
It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.Collection: Mind
When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.Collection: Life
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.Collection: Moving On
Being interested is more important than being interesting.Collection: Interesting
Imagine you had a bank that each morning credited your account with $1,440 - with one condition: whatever part of the $1,440 you failed to use during the day would be erased from your account, and no balance would be carried over. What would you do? You'd draw out every cent every day and use it to your best advantage. Well, you do have such a bank, and its name is time. Every morning, this bank credits you with 1,440 minutes. And it writes off as forever lost whatever portion you have failed to invest to good purpose.Collection: Morning
Never let an opportunity pass to give a well-deserved compliment.Collection: Opportunity
The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Fun
If at first you do succeed, try something harder.Collection: Success
Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.Collection: Choices
Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.Collection: Lonely
Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners.Collection: Museums
If criticism is needed, do it tactfully. Don't use a sledgehammer when a fly swatter will do the job.Collection: Jobs
All marriages are happy, it's living together afterward that's tough.Collection: Marriage