All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. 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

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

Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
Ann Landers

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
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

I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.
Ann Landers

I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.
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

If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.
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


Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.
Ann Landers

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Ann Landers

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

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
Ann Landers

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

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.
Ann Landers

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Ann Landers

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