Ann Landers Quotes

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• We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.
• At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60,…
• 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…
• There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
• 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…
• Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.
• Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.
• Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.
• When a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself.
• 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.
• Are you better off with him or without him?
• Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but couldn't find…
• Marriage is not a reform school.
• If you have a good name, if you are right more often than you are wrong, if your children respect you, if your grandchildren are…
• The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
• Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul.
• It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.
• One of the characteristics of the young is "I want it now."
• Grown-up people can wait.

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