Bessie-isms:

*Pain is instructive. Unless you become addicted to it and enjoy it. Then you’ll likely never learn anything.

*Possessions are mostly a burden, especially when you travel. You either take too many, or the wrong ones.

Quotable:

You can be sure that when a man begins to call himself a “realist,” he is preparing to do something he is secretly ashamed of doing.

Sydney Harris