(Enjoy this column from 2015 from Publisher Emeritus Bil Cooke.)
Neighbor Grover sez he totally takes back all those times he didn’t want to take a nap when he was a kid.
Story of the week has been around but it’s one of those that paints a picture in your mind and I like it.
A tough old cowboy from Montana counseled his granddaughter that if she wanted to live a long life, the secret was to sprinkle a pinch of gun powder on her oatmeal every morning.
The granddaughter did this religiously until the age of 103, when she died.
She left behind 14 children, 30 grandchildren, 45 great-grandchildren, 25 great-great-grandchildren, and a 40-foot hole where the crematorium used to be. —bc— I recently quoted a lot of Susie Piper’s maxims— wise sayings—which she wrote on her classroom blackboard during a distinguished 41-year teaching career in the Rockdale ISD.
Here are more of her collection, these being quotes of note:
• You gotta’ take the good with the bad, the sweet with the sour, the rose with the thorn. That’s life.”— Snuffy Smith
• Something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. These are the grand essentials to happiness.— Joseph Addison.
• One kind word can warm three winter months.— Japanese adage
• Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.— Joyce Meyers
• Anger is only one word short of danger.— Anon
• A moment is everything. But sometimes a moment is all you get.— Richard Appel
• Hard work will beat talent when talent fails to work hard.— Tara Brown
• Never do what feels good in the moment, if it’s going to cost you something that matters in the end.— Leonard Pitts
• Obstacles are often opportunities for growth.— Joel Osteen
• Be thankful because praise is man-given. Be humble, for conceit is self-given.— Dean Driscoll And this one from Susie herself:
• Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift.
The above are from Drippings From Susie’s Pen, a booklet she compiled and was kind enough to share with friends. —bc— A few more quotes that recently came across my desk:
• Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.— Albert Einstein
• When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.— Thomas Sowell
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