Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

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.

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.

I've been doing theaters like the Warner for about a year and we've found the earlier you get the tickets on sale the better idea you get on how many shows we will be doing.

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.

Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.

Man is born dead and he remains dead till he attains wisdom! Wisdom is the only resurrection man can obtain!

People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

I'm whispering so that the media doesn't hear me.

It is a constant change. Not one body is constant.