Ann Landers

40 quotes

"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."

Ann Landers

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

Ann Landers

"One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closest friends—and if they seem okay then you’re the one!"

Ann Landers

"People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim."

Ann Landers

"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."

Ann Landers

"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."

Ann Landers

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

Ann Landers

"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 your head high, look it squarely in eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'"

Ann Landers

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

Ann Landers

"All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love."

Ann Landers

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

Ann Landers

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

Ann Landers

"Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat."

Ann Landers

"Nobody gets to live life backwards. Look ahead - that's where your future lies."

Ann Landers

"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."

Ann Landers

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

Ann Landers

"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."

Ann Landers

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

Ann Landers

"No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence."

Ann Landers

"Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams."

Ann Landers

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

Ann Landers

"One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closest friends—and if they seem okay then you’re the one!"

Ann Landers

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

Ann Landers

"No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence."

Ann Landers

"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."

Ann Landers