Ann Landers

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

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.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

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 principle of equal partnership.

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

- Ann Landers