Ann Landers
Ann Landers
Ann Landers was a pen name created by Chicago Sun-Times advice columnist Ruth Crowley in 1943 and taken over by Esther Pauline "Eppie" Lederer in 1955. For 56 years, the Ask Ann Landers syndicated advice column was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America. Due to this popularity, "Ann Landers," though fictional, became something of a national institution and cultural icon...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 July 1918
CitySioux City, IA
CountryUnited States of America
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so."
People have one year after the wedding to send a gift. Thank-you notes must be written immediately. If you don't receive an acknowledgment within three months, phone and ask if it was received. If the bride and groom are embarrassed, fine. They deserve to be.
Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.
Never let an opportunity pass to give a well-deserved compliment.
guilt is a pollutant and we don't need any more of it in the world.
You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.
Don't indulge in gossip. ... People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves.
Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.
Wake up and smell the coffee.
More divorces start in the bedroom than in any other room in the house.
Some people take pleasure in regaling one and all with details of their poor health. They are happy to give an organ recital to anyone who will listen.
It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.
Women's magazines continue to print 'helpful' articles on How to Hang on to Your Husband while thousands of wives write to me and complain that 'hanging is too good for 'em.