An injury may prove a blessing.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Our honor means no more than our lives, so long as the realm is safe.

I left myself out of humanity by focusing on differences. This isolation only strengthened Ed” (17)

I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.

It would be hilarious if I worked in a bowling alley.

Ever since I saw sexy Beast I've been trying to get the cockney thing down.

I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with.

The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work.

I would say [Fed policy] has been in some sense Reverse Robin Hood.

Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a book.

You might think I'm bulletproof, but I'm not.