Bess Truman Quotes


"You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it."
- Bess Truman
(Related: Wedding, Church, May, Want)

"Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day."
- Bess Truman
(Related: Day, Meeting, Now)

"It looks like you're going to have to put up with us for another four years."
- Bess Truman
(Related: Years)

"I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin."
- Bess Truman
(Related: Talent, Opportunity, Action, Prejudice, Race)

"I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books."
- Bess Truman
(Related: Books)

"I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures out in the hall want to come out of their frames for a friendly chat."
- Bess Truman
(Related: Old, Want)

"I have a strong tennis arm."
- Bess Truman
(Related: Tennis)

"I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them."
- Bess Truman
(Related: People)

"A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight."
- Bess Truman
(Related: Husband, Public, Woman)