A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

By words the mind is winged.

When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Imagination is phenomenal.

When we prepare not our hearts for the things of God, evil things take over.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

Whether you want to admit it or not, people begin to judge you the minute you walk in the door.

The longer I live the more I believe that the greatest enemy of a victorious Christian life is passivity.

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar.

Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.

Holding on to expectations is often the source of unforgiving feelings.