Ann Landers (1918-2002)

Quotes

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

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

• Every marriage is happy. Its the living together afterward that's the challenge.

• Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

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

• Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.

• 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.'

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

• 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 principle of equal partnership.

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

• 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.

• Experience is pure gold. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted.

• It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.