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

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-rootedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

— Ann Landers

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-rootedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

— Ann Landers

Class never runs scared. It is sure-footed and confident. It can handle anything that comes along. Class has a sense of humor. It knows a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the machinery of human relations. Class never makes excuses. It takes its lumps and learns from past mistakes. Class knows that good manners are nothing more than a series of small, inconsequential sacrifices. Class bespeaks an aristocracy that has nothing to do with ancestors or money. Some wealthy “blue bloods” have no class, while individuals who are struggling to make ends meet are loaded with it. Class is real. It can’t be faked. Class never tried to build itself by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse. Class can “walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.” Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself. If you have class, you’ve got it made. If you don’t have class, no matter what else you have, it doesn’t make any difference.

— 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

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quietly in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

— Ann Landers

Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.

— Ann Landers

Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured.

— Ann Landers

If you have a good name if you are right more often than you are wrong if your children respect you if your grandchildren are glad to see you if your friends can count on you, and you can count on them in time of trouble if you can face your God and say "I have done my best" then you are a success.

— Ann Landers