Ann Landers
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.Collection: Courage
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.Collection: Thinking
No person ever died by drowning in their own sweat.Collection: Sweat
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.Collection: Cancer
Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so."Collection: Humility
Some things get better with age, but after a certain point, the mind isn't among them.Collection: Mind
Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which cannot be changed, the courage to change that which should be changed, no matter what it takes, and the wisdom to know the difference.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Success
Strong role models and unconditional love can heal even the most emotionally impoverished person, and that goes for adults as well as youngsters.Collection: Strong
The minute more than two people know a secret, it is no longer a secret.Collection: Love
Parents do not owe their progeny an inheritance no matter how much money they have. One of the surest ways to produce loafers and freeloaders is to let children know that their future is assured.Collection: Children
Grown-up people can wait.Collection: Maturity
Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another check-out line.Collection: Believe
Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.Collection: Friendship
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.Collection: Inspirational
Love is friendship that has caught fire . . .Collection: Loyalty
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.Collection: Health
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love.Collection: Marriage
Some men have no idea how to romance a woman. However, women who teach their husbands what they like will be well-rewarded.Collection: Husband
What we steadily, consciously, habitually think we are, that we tend to become.Collection: Thinking
I was naive, but I certainly was not duplicitous.Collection: Naive
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.Collection: Maturity
We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.Collection: Death
Most of us would be willing to pay as we go if we could just finish paying for where we've been.Collection: Pay
Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them.Collection: Children
Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but couldn't find the time.Collection: New Year
Are you better off with him or without him?Collection: Sexuality
Assume nothing. Inside every dumb blond there may be a very smart brunette.Collection: Smart
If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel.Collection: Women
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.Collection: Perseverance
Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.Collection: Success
TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation.Collection: Impact
You're all you've got.Collection: Women
An open marriage is nature's way of telling you that you need a divorce.Collection: Divorce
A happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.Collection: Sunset
Marriage is not a reform school.Collection: Marriage
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.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Maturity
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.Collection: Husband
Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul.Collection: Maturity
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.Collection: Women
Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original.Collection: Comfort
Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.Collection: Maturity
A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.Collection: Men
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 downCollection: Inspirational
One of the best ways to measure people is how they behave when something free is offered.Collection: People
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.Collection: Race
The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.Collection: Positive
My personal recipe for success is- Do what you love and don't look at the clock.Collection: Women