Quotes by Advice Columnists

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Abigail Van Buren
If you want a place in the sun you've got to put up with a few blisters.
Abigail Van Buren
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
Ann Landers
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
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
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-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
Ann Landers
Accept every blind date you can get even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.
Abigail Van Buren
The reason that husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.
Dorothy Dix
A church is a hospital for sinners not a museum for saints.
Abigail Van Buren
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead that is where your future lies.
Ann Landers
When life's problems seem overwhelming look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
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
Know thyself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Ann Landers
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work so most people don't recognize them.
Ann Landers
A church is a hospital for sinners not a museum for saints.
Abigail Van Buren
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead that is where your future lies.
Ann Landers
If you want a place in the sun you've got to put up with a few blisters.
Abigail Van Buren
When life's problems seem overwhelming look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
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
Know thyself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Ann Landers
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work so most people don't recognize them.
Ann Landers
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
Abigail Van Buren
You need that guy like a giraffe needs a strep throat.
Ann Landers
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
Abigail Van Buren
The best things in life aren't things.
Ann Landers
One out of four people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your three closest friends and if they seem okay then you're the one.
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
When life's problems seem overwhelming look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
Ann Landers
It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself.
Abigail Van Buren
The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.
Ann Landers
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Abigail Van Buren
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Ann Landers
I have learned in the great University of Hard Knocks a philosophy that no woman who has had an easy life ever acquires. I have learned to live each day as it comes and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
Dorothy Dix
It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.
Dorothy Dix
If you want a place in the sun you've got to put up with a few blisters.
Abigail Van Buren
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 it’s 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
The bedlamite little hats in which American women have tried to out-lunatic each other for the past four years prove conclusively we don't dress to please anyone. We're just docile sheep who accept what's given us.
Beatrice Fairfax
You could move.' ---"Dear Abby" responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.
Abigail Van Buren
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conslusive evidence that your are wonderful.
Ann Landers
It is always some consolation in sorrow to feel that it is shared, and any burden laid on several is carried more lightly or removed.
Heloise
Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry.
Dorothy Dix
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Ann Landers
The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
Abigail Van Buren
Elvira, as befitting one who represented a magazine, registered first and demanded a room and bath. She pronounced it "bawth." The clerk seemed aghast at the request. However, in that hotel, any lady got whatever she asked for. It was her unquestioned right, as a lady. But there was no bath in the hotel, nor running water for that matter. The clerk faltered out something about a nice bowl and pitcher in every room, and said he thought they could provide a foot tub. He was sorry; there was no bath. Elvira couldn't grasp the situation. She thought the clerk was stupid--a hotel without a bath was a contradiction in terms. When she explained that she wanted something for complete immersion, the clerk seemed embarrassed. At his wits' end, he suggested (blushing like fire) that the colored boy could bring up the hog scalder.
Beatrice Fairfax
Gratitude is the heart's first language.
Joey Garcia
When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
Ann Landers
Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.
Ann Landers
I have leveled with the girls - from Anchorage to Amarillo.I tell them that all marriages are happyIt's the living together afterward that's tough.I tell them that a good marriage is not a gift,It's an achievement.that marriage is not for kids It takes guts and maturity.It separates the men from the boys and the women from the girls.I tell them that marriage is tested dily by the ability to compromise.Its survival can depend on being smart enough to know what's worth fighting about.Or making an issue of or even mentioning.Marriage is giving - and more important, it's forgiving.And it is almost always the wife who must do these things.Then, as if that were not enough, she must be willing to forget what she forgave.Often that is the hardest part.Oh, I have leveled all right.If they don't get my message, Buster,It's because they don't want to get it.Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocalsBecause nobody wants to red the small print in dreams.
Ann Landers
There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who walk into a room and say ‘Here I am’ and those who walk into a room and say, ‘There you are.
Ann Landers
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
Abigail Van Buren
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.
Ann Landers
Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.
Ann Landers
Stocks may come and stocks may go, but food goes on forever.
Beatrice Fairfax
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-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
Ann Landers
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.
Ann Landers
Of all the queer sources of romance, ours lay in the discovery that each was an addict of Boswell's Life of Johnson. H.E.G. had a first edition of the Journey to the Hebrides, which I coveted mightily. Why not acquire the book honorably, marry the man, and have it around the house?
Beatrice Fairfax
There used to be a canny politician in the Hyde Park area in Chicago in which I at one time lived for several years. His slogan was "I am for harmony if I have to use an axe." As "Secretary of Charm," if and when my merits and ambitions are recognized by my appointment to that office, I will take a page out of old "Doc" Jamieson's book. My motto will be "I will have charm, even if I have to use a club.
Beatrice Fairfax
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
Ann Landers
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age.Nothing does --- except wrinkles.It's true,some wines improves with age.But only if the grapes were good in the first place
Abigail Van Buren
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
Dorothy Dix