Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market.

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!

I am an acquired taste.

when distress comes your way, pause and ponder

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

God gives the milk but not the pail.

I always run in the morning on an empty stomach, and I'll go through a bottle and a half of water. Then I have a protein drink or I eat egg whites.

Comedy's been really liberating for me because I've been able to sneak the singing part in through the back door.

It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series.

Got ants in my pants and I need to dance, so big fine mama, come give me a chance.

The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.