In an easy cause anyone can be eloquent; the slightest strength is enough to break what is already shattered.

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.

When fear meets fear nothing good ever happens.

Advanced cultures are usually sophisticated enough, or have been sophisticated enough at some point in their pasts, to realize that foxes shouldn't be relied on to guard henhouses.

Now, it's true I married my wife for her looks... but not the ones she's been givin' me lately.

I’m an ordinary girl who believed in her dream.

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

Giving up on life is easier than going through the hard times to find the good.

Why is it that govt employees makes the best spouses? Because afterthey come back from work, they are not tired and they already readthe newspapers.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Yes, and Syrians. There is a horrible crisis there and the United States has admitted virtually none of the refugees.

He's a good sportsman but his best at world trash talking.