Ann Landers Quotes - Page 3

Make somebody happy today, and mind your own business

Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners.

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?

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

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

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

If at first you do succeed, try something harder.

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

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

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

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

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.

People, like water, seek their own level.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.