Fortitude is a great help in distress.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry. [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

I have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating.

Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.

Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

In small space a player has to be capable of acting quickly. A good player who needs too much time can suddenly become a poor player.

You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.

No star playing, just football.

Money talks but it can't sing and dance and it don't walk.