We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry. [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

Use your time and your strength for your accomplishments.

Things you don't need in your life targets you the most.

Romania are more Portuguese than German.

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape, or form.

Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.

Pressure is when you've got thirty-five bucks riding on a four-foot putt and you've only got five dollars left.

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.

Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.

Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.