Bessie-isms:

*In marriage, men frequently assume the role of leader. The wise wife allows this, while she goes about making all the real decisions!

*No man knows the meaning of the word patience until he is married and has to wait on the wife to get ready to go somewhere.

Quotable:

If I were to wish for something, I should not wish for wealth or power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.

Kirkegaard