To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]

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.

You can't be spontaneous within reason.

Love is the only bridge between life and happiness.

He was the ocean and I was the sand, i lived content in stillness and he washed a shore everytime, as a better man.

Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all.

To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.

I don't like the word 'alcoholic'. I like to think of myself as an advanced drinker.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Then here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone! And still flourish he a hale green tree When a hundred years are gone!

Rick, I’ll tell you what - ten thousand bucks? Ten thousand dollar bet?

Structure influences behavior. Design spaces that make you feel "you are welcome here and that you came to the right place."