American - Advice Columnist|July 4, 1918 - June 22, 2002
50 FAMOUS QUOTES · ADVICE COLUMNIST
Read 50 of the best Ann Landers quotes on love, class, maturity, marriage and common sense from America's most famous advice columnist.
“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.”
Ann Landers
“Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future, and it doesn't brood over the past.”
Ann Landers
“Love is quiet understanding and the mature acceptance of imperfection.”
Ann Landers
“Love means trust. You are calm, secure and unthreatened.”
Ann Landers
“Love is the day-in-and-day-out chronicle of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and working toward common goals.”
Ann Landers
“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
“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.”
Ann Landers
“Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.”
Ann Landers
“Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.”
Ann Landers
“Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.”
Ann Landers
“Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.”
Ann Landers
“All married couples should learn the art of battle. Good battle is objective and honest, never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.”
Ann Landers
“You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.”
Ann Landers
“People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.”
Ann Landers
“People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.”
Ann Landers
“Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.”
Ann Landers
“I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.”
Ann Landers
“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
“Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself the most comforting words of all: this, too, shall pass.”
Ann Landers
“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
“Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.”
Ann Landers
“The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.”
Ann Landers
“If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.”
Ann Landers
“Know when to tune out. If you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other people's mistakes.”
Ann Landers
“No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.”
Ann Landers
American - Advice Columnist | July 4, 1918 - June 22, 2002
Ann Landers was the pen name of Esther Pauline "Eppie" Lederer (July 4, 1918 – June 22, 2002), an American advice columnist born in Sioux City, Iowa. In 1955 she won a contest to take over the "Ask Ann Landers" column at the *Chicago Sun-Times*, and she went on to write it for more than 45 years.
At its peak her column appeared in over 1,200 newspapers and reached an estimated 90 million readers, making her one of the most widely read and influential women in America. Known for her blunt, witty and compassionate advice on love, marriage, family and manners, she was the identical twin sister of Pauline Phillips, who wrote the rival "Dear Abby" column. Here are 50 of the best Ann Landers quotes.
Quick answers about Ann Landers and these famous quotes.
Ann Landers was the pen name of Esther Pauline "Eppie" Lederer, an American advice columnist who wrote the "Ask Ann Landers" column from 1955 until her death in 2002.
Yes. Ann Landers and "Dear Abby" (Abigail Van Buren, the pen name of Pauline Phillips) were identical twin sisters. Their rival advice columns made them two of the most famous women in America.
Her best-known catchphrase was "Wake up and smell the coffee." She also often asked readers in troubled relationships, "Are you better off with him or without him?"
"Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing" is adapted from Oscar Wilde, and "There could be no honour in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat" was written by T. E. Lawrence.
At its height, her column ran in more than 1,200 newspapers worldwide and reached an estimated 90 million readers.
Eppie Lederer owned the rights to the "Ann Landers" name and asked that no one continue the column after her death, so it ended in 2002.