If only the human skunks would come distinctly marked and easy to notice.

Bessie-isms:

*Some great loves start slowly as a small liking between friends. Other times the least touch starts a consuming conflagration that burns with the heat of the sun.

*Strive to avoid being late. Being late, especially when meeting another suggests you don’t value their time, or respect them.

Quotable:

How much have cost us the evils that never happened!

Thomas Jefferson

Bessie-isms:

*The hardest part of any job or project might seem the simplest: to begin. However, nothing can suffer more from reluctance and neglect than this one aspect of the task.

*Before you buy a bigger house, look sharply at what you need to get rid of.

Quotable:

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Mark Twain

Bessie-isms:

*You don’t drive a car by looking behind at where you’ve been: don’t try living that way either.

*More leftovers are consumed by guilt than by real desire.

Quotable:

The government is concerned about the population expolsion, and the population is concerned about the government explosion.

Ruth Rankin

Bessie-isms:

*”Clean your plate – children are starving in China” may be the single biggest contributor to obesity. Don’t keep eating when you are no longer hungry.

*The sun seems to warm us on even the coldest of days. Overcast, cloudy days just seem colder.

Quotable:

Don’t carry a grudge. While you’re carrying the grudge, the other guy is out dancing.

Buddy Hackett