Ann Landers
If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else.Collection: Funny
One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closest friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.Collection: Funny
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.Collection: Inspirational
Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists.Collection: Funny
A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement.Collection: Successful
The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement.Collection: Way
Don't indulge in gossip. ... People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves.Collection: Indulge In
One trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out like fun.Collection: Inspirational
Remember, it takes two to make an argument. The one who is wrong is the one who will be doing most of the talking.Collection: Talking
Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past.Collection: Past
Many people know the price of everything and the value of nothingCollection: Knows
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say “I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.” Then repeat to yourself the most comforting of all words , “This too shall pass.”Collection: Inspirational
No one can take advantage of you without your permission.Collection: Women
Make somebody happy today, and mind your own businessCollection: Mind Your Own Business
Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?Collection: Years
When a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself.Collection: Fun
People, like water, seek their own level.Collection: People
Pity the poor millionaire. He'll never know the thrill of paying that final installment.Collection: Finals
It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.Collection: People
No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.Collection: Book
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?Collection: Lying
Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.Collection: Teacher
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.Collection: Maturity
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.Collection: Children
A husband is a man who wishes he had as much fun when he goes on business trips as his wife thinks he does.Collection: Fun
People of integrity expect to be believed. They also know time will prove them right and are willing to wait.Collection: Integrity
More divorces start in the bedroom than in any other room in the house.Collection: Divorce
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.Collection: Disappointment
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.Collection: Inspirational
A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.Collection: Being Thankful
The real question is why are millions of people so unhappy, so bored, so unfulfilled, that they are willing to drink, snort, inject or inhale any substance that might blot out reality and give them a bit of temporary relief.Collection: Real
Some women have the best husbands. Others make the best of the husbands they have.Collection: Husband
Maintaining self-respect in the face of a devastating experience is of prime importance.Collection: Self
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.Collection: Women
guilt is a pollutant and we don't need any more of it in the world.Collection: Guilt
Wake up and smell the coffee.Collection: Coffee
One of the characteristics of the young is "I want it now."Collection: Maturity
It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Fashion
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.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Maturity
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.Collection: Startup
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.Collection: Country