Gertrude’s Sayings

  • Two wrongs don’t make a right.
  • Pretty is as pretty does.
  • It’ll all come out in the wash.
  • Into each life some rain must fall.
  • This too shall pass.
  • If you can’t say anything nice about someone, don’t say anything at all.
  • Anything worth doing is worth doing right.
  • “Can’t” never could do anything.
  • A place for everything and everything in its place.
  • Don’t cry over spilt milk.
  • There are none so blind as those who will not see.
  • God helps those who help themselves.
  • Don’t trouble trouble ’til trouble troubles you.

Gertrude Whitson Woodring was my maternal grandmother, whom I never met.  Her wisdom came down to me through my mother Lillian, who gave us these quotes to live by.  These are my favorites.  And I guess I do live by them, or try to.