Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?

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!

This is the one-off occasion and you can't get any bigger occasion than that

I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets.

The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.

Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.

Most of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say.

Chemistry begins in the stars. The stars are the source of the chemical elements, which are the building blocks of matter and the core of our subject.

How could I have been a wife, a mother and a singer? Who takes care of the piccolini when you go around the world? Your children would not call you Mama, but Renata.

Having your own, um, cave at eighteen is pretty cool.

How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.

You can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence, that's all anything ever is, nothing more than coincidence...