Quotes from Ann Landers

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.

Love is friendship that has caught fire . . .

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.

All marriages are happy, it's living together afterward that's tough.

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

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.

I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.

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.

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

I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

The best things in life aren't things.

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.

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.

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

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

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.

No one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it - and sometimes one of them doesn't know.

A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement.

Marriage is not a reform school.

You need that guy like a giraffe needs a strep throat.

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.

Some men have no idea how to romance a woman. However, women who teach their husbands what they like will be well-rewarded.

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.