Bessie-isms:

*If you stop telling yourself lies, you’ll be less inclined to lie to others.

*One does not require a large vocabulary to lie.

Quotable:

No one really understands the grief or joy of another.

Franz Schubert

Bessie-isms:

*Nothing brightens your day like having someone unexpectedly touch your butt, unless its in a dark alley late at night.

*If leftovers just appeared in your fridge by magic, you’d never cook again.

Quotable:

The most difficult year of marriage is the one you’re in.

Franklin P. Jones

Bessie-isms:

*Judge everyone, not to abuse them or treat them bad, but so you can determine which are evil, and avoid getting ensnared with them.

*You will never trust others until you learn to trust yourself.

Quotable:

Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Mark Twain

Bessie-isms:

*The ghosts that haunt your mind are far scarier than any haunting a house.

*The answer to your problems will seldom please you as much as you hope it would.

Quotable:

This is what marriage really means: helping one another reach the full status of being persons, responsible beings who do not run away from life.

Bessie-isms:

*Most people would rather spell something wrong than bother to find the word in a dictionary. Spell check is all that allows most people to get a college degree or a job these days.

*Introverts love bad weather, as it gives them another excuse not to leave their place.

Quotable:

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

Mark Twain

Bessie-isms:

*There are happy tears but not nearly as many as sad ones, unfortunately.

*It’s usually easier to laugh at someone else’s mistakes than to laugh at your own.

Quotable:

The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of its cities, nor the crops it produces…but the kind of man the country turns out.

Emerson