Bessy The Cow Quotes & Sayings

God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none but He knows the bitterness of our souls.
Margaret to Bessy re: trials & burdens we all carry — Elizabeth Gaskell

I only mean, Bessy, there's good and bad in everything in this world; and as you felt the bad up here, I thought it was but fair you should know the bad down there. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Do I not know anxiety, though I go about well-dressed, and have food enough? Oh, Bessy, God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none but He knows the bitterness of our souls. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Bessy, don't be impatient with your life, whatever it is - or may have been. Remember who gave it you, and made it what it is! — Elizabeth Gaskell

Fools will always break out o' bounds. — Elizabeth Gaskell

I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car. — Owen Paterson

Have I not care? Do I not know anxiety, though I go about well-dressed, and have food enough? Oh, Bessy, God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none but He knows the bitterness of our souls.' 'I — Elizabeth Gaskell