The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne.

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!

People stubbornly lived their lives as they wanted, without regard to me, to an amazing degree.

Personal emotions should be carefully monitored. Emotional ties are to be exploited but never felt.

I say I don't sleep with married men, but what I mean is that I don't sleep with happily married men.

Everyone should have a deep-seated interest or hobby to enrich his mind, add zest to living, and perhaps, depending upon what it is, result in a service to his country.

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

I don't think men see any lusty sexiness in me. The appealing thing is an air of abandonment. Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I.

The shakes stop if you drink enough, but then so does everything else.

I shrug. "I'll probably mention that I'm in love with you." He chuckles. "Only you would say that in such a I-think-I'll-wash-my-hair-tonight tone.

Philosophers are never happy here. Now is not their time, and here is not their space. They live there, they live somewhere else.

Thy peace shall be in much patience.