A dwarf on a giant's shoulder, sees further of the two.

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!

It was pleasant to think that men still sang, even in the midst of butchery and famine.

In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.

Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrified by this despicable barbarity which mars the image of their island.

The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion

Anticipation almost always exceeds the reality of that which we anticipated.

There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.

God is not an encyclopedia whose task is to satisfy our curiosity.

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

Life is a lease and God is the landlord.

Pride is both a virtue and a vice.