Bessie-isms:

* You understand that no two people will give the same eyewitness account about what an event looked like. History is merely a compilation of eyewitness accounts. Then it becomes merely the repeated memories of eyewitness accounts. Eventually it resembles myth and legend, but may well be less reliable than either.

*No amount of pretending will make a dishonorable person seem honorable.

Quotable:

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato