Ann Landers Quotes - Page 3

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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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• 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

  Funny, Friends, Country

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

  Ann Landers

  Fun, Argument, Persons

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• 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.

  Ann Landers

  Motivational, Success, Congratulations

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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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• Don't give up. Keep going. there is always a chance that you stumble onto something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Giving Up

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• Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists.

  Ann Landers

  Funny, Blessed, Dental

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

  Ann Landers

  Successful, Achievement, Successful Marriage

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

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• No one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it - and sometimes one of them doesn't know.

  Ann Landers

  Marriage, Two, People

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

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• At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

  Ann Landers

  Funny, Hilarious, Humorous

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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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• Some things get better with age, but after a certain point, the mind isn't among them.

  Ann Landers

  Mind, Get Better, Age

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• 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.

  Ann Landers

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Don't indulge in gossip. ... People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves.

  Ann Landers

  Indulge In, People, Gossip

  Ann Landers (1979). “The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”

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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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• 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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• Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which cannot be changed, the courage to change that which should be changed, no matter what it takes, and the wisdom to know the difference.

  Ann Landers

  Art, Maturity, Differences

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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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• More divorces start in the bedroom than in any other room in the house.

  Ann Landers

  Divorce, House, Rooms

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

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

  Ann Landers

  Success, Vision, Trying

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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