For washing his hands, none sels his lands.

The best mirror is an old friend.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.

You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!

Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

We live in what is but we find 1 000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.

I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics.

I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.

'Sightseers' started off as a character comedy double act.

Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my favourite lyricists are like Lou Reed, kind of the classics - Bob Dylan and stuff like that.

Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.

You aren't exactly the best judge of what is or isn't dangerous.

Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.