The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.

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!

Now do you understand? I am never changing who I am.

You feel vulnerable when you hear things that are not being said

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun.

Donald Trump is not just a problem for the EU, but for the whole world.

Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief.

You learn as much from doing a bad film as a good one.

I might be collecting wheely bins in 12 months time but at least they'll be wheely bins outside back gates that I know, in a part of the country that I love. There's no place like home!

We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.

There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it.