The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.

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.

What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.

You're the proverbial diamond in the rough", she'd said to him once, touching his nose lightly with the tip of her electrifying finger.

Even if your body doesn't work the way it used to, the heart and the mind and the spirit are not diminished.

I know they are going to be doing a box set in Europe of Danzig 5 and 6 and some other stuff.

We can make America a clean-energy super-power and create good-paying jobs in the process.

I keep getting cast as this bad guy, and I don't know why.

We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.

I can tell you I'm pretty middle-class.

Romance isn't about proving to someone you love them with flowers and greeting cards and chocolate. Or even a lock on a fence. It's a daily reminder. It's saying, I choose you. Today and every day.

Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.