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
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
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.
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.
Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how it feels about dogs
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.''
If you want to save face, keep the lower half shut
If you want to catch a trout, don't fish in a herring barrel
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do himabsolutely no good.
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.