Bessie-isms:

*Human progress owes much to the female of the species. Many great advances and inventions have been attained by men laboring in the garage or basement, trying to avoid being with their wife.

*God makes the rain fall on both the righteous and the wicked. Where the righteous are grateful, the others will simply complain.

Quotable:

Common sense is the knack for seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Calvin E. Stowe