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
Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul.
If you want to save face, keep the lower half shut
If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, ''I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.''
Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how it feels about dogs
I was naive, but I certainly was not duplicitous.
Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
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.
Pity the poor millionaire. He'll never know the thrill of paying that final installment.
If at first you do succeed, try something harder.
The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.
Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.
People of integrity expect to be believed. They also know time will prove them right and are willing to wait.
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
Don't indulge in gossip. ... People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves.