Quotes from Bonnie Angelo

have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances." The first First Lady's philosophy

Texas is heaven for men and dogs, but hell for women and oxen. Men and dogs were able, within limits, to roam freely; women and oxen were obliged, within reason, to live under the yoke.

In that turbulent time, the happenstance First Lady, Betty Ford, was certain of one thing: she would not change. 'I've spent too many years as me,' she declared. 'I can't suddenly turn into a princess.

Icelandic ponies, though tiny, are not bred to ride in elevators, certainly not in the President's house...

But Tad was touchingly tenderhearted. When Jack, the turkey being fattened for Christmas, became his pet, Tad's distress was so great that his father granted the bird a pardon–a custom that continues today.