Bessie-isms:

*You likely look down on the plumber, but when your crapper is plugged, and you need it badly, you would bow to him as if he were God. He knows it too, which explains his bill…

*The best way to insure that a problem gets bigger is to ignore it, and pretend it isn’t urgent.

Quotable:

I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child and to keep them in comfort, than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

Yeats  1865-1939