Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.

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.

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.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Most people aren't unsuccessful in life because they don't know what to do. They are unsuccessful because they don't DO what they know how to do. Knowledge is power IF...you use it.

I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff

In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.

I hate being called "Liz", because it can sound like such a hiss.

The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.

The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.

Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.

I don't think most people understand acting, even the people who call themselves savvy, even actors.