Ann Landers Quotes - Page 3

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

  Ann Landers

  Marriage, Together, Tough

  Ann Landers (1981). “Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”, Ballantine Books

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• Make somebody happy today, and mind your own business

  Ann Landers

  Mind Your Own Business, Today, Mind

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• If at first you do succeed, try something harder.

  Ann Landers

  Success, Vision, Trying

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• No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.

  Ann Landers

  Book, Reading, Successful

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

  Ann Landers

  Home, Men, Sea

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• People of integrity expect to be believed. They also know time will prove them right and are willing to wait.

  Ann Landers

  Integrity, People, Waiting

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• 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?

  Ann Landers

  Lying, Live Life, Hard Work

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• People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.

  Ann Landers

  People, Care, Enjoy

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

  Ann Landers

  Life, Success, Letting Go

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• One trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out like fun.

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Fun, Trouble

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• Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past.

  Ann Landers

  Past, Love Is, Hope For The Future

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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• It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.

  Ann Landers

  People, Feelings, Irony

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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• 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.

  Ann Landers

  Maturity, Frustration, Mature Person

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• 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.

  Ann Landers

  Children, Successful, Majority

  Ann Landers (1982). “Ann Landers says: truth is stranger ...”, Prentice Hall

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• Pity the poor millionaire. He'll never know the thrill of paying that final installment.

  Ann Landers

  Finals, Thrill, Pity

  Ann Landers (2017). “Since You Ask Me”, p.88, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• People, like water, seek their own level.

  Ann Landers

  People, Water, Levels

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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

  Ann Landers

  Funny, Motivational, Hilarious

  Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)

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• 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.

  Ann Landers

  Disappointment, Past, Love Is

  Ann Landers (1996). “Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!: Advice, Wisdom, and Uncommon Good Sense”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• trouble is not a sign of inadequacy, stupidity or inferiority, but rather an inescapable part of life - proof that you are a card-carrying member of the human race.

  Ann Landers

  Race, Stupidity, Cards

  Ann Landers (1981). “Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”, Ballantine Books

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• A husband is a man who wishes he had as much fun when he goes on business trips as his wife thinks he does.

  Ann Landers

  Fun, Husband, Men

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

  Ann Landers

  Humanity, Belief, Empirical Evidence

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• Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?

  Ann Landers

  Years, Age, Asking

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• A cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco, and drugs, with a small fire on one end and a large fool at the other. Some of its chief benefits are cancer of the lips and stomach, softening of the brain, funeral procesions, and families shrouded in gloom and grief. Although a great many people know this, they still smoke in order to appear sophisticated.

  Ann Landers

  Cancer, Grief, Fire

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• 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.

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Life, Leadership

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• Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.

  Ann Landers

  Thinking, Talking, Voice

  Ann Landers (1981). “Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”, Ballantine Books

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