A little labour, much health.

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!

...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.

But wanting something didn't give one the right to have it.

Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.

Expert: An ordinary man away from home giving advice.

More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.

The youngest metal kids are less impressed by tradition, so you get metal that encompasses everything. It's not a defining kind of lifestyle and look.

I think it has as much to do with honoring my own voice as it does with feeling a responsibility to my readers or my daughters.

We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows green again.

No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.

I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.