Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

The arrows are from her dowry.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

I like the color red because it's a fire. And I see myself as always being on fire.

The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.

I always say to my religious friends, if a pool had even one turd in it, would you jump in?

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties.

I need to think about 'Make sure you drink your water.' That's the kind of person I am.

The journal and Gansey were clearly long acquainted, and he wanted her to know. This is me. The real me.

All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.

Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward To what they were before.