The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

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.

Be honest. Be truthful. If you tell lies, you lose your credibility.

The deepest of powers are often the most subtle. Something that most fail to realize... ☥

So long as you are going in the right direction then the speed of your travel is unimportant.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Whenever I made money I invested in myself... I bought whatever I needed to make my career better. I never really spent money on other stuff, like buying expensive cars.

The views from Waterloo Bridge are amazing - you can see so much of London.

You don't win by making sensational plays; you win by not making mistakes.

Crying wouldn't help anything now.

Today, Iraq is Harvard for terrorism.

First of all I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the comeback that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers somewhere to be viable, salable and so on.