Quotes from Ann Landers

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.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Remember, it takes two to make an argument. The one who is wrong is the one who will be doing most of the talking.

When a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself.

Some women have the best husbands. Others make the best of the husbands they have.

Make somebody happy today, and mind your own business

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.

Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.

Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'

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.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; This, too, shall pass.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything before you go to bed.