Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?

Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.

Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive

O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.

To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.

I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.

Briarwood is the pretty poison. There is no cure for Briarwood.

I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.

I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife Madonna. That's even why I married her.

God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.

A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.

I am against performance-enhancing drugs. I have never taken them and I never will take them.

Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days.

Trump's junk economics is the illusion that if we cut the taxes on the wealthiest brackets, it'll all trickle down. But it doesn't trickle down.

I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal

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