A smooth sea never made a skilled marine.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

The shortest answer is doing.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Two heads are better than one.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Many things are lost for want of asking.

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

...ism's are not good. A person should not believe in an ism. He should believe in himself.

I've always been a headstrong girl. I had my first child at 17, and it was a mistake, but I got a beautiful child out of it.

The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong.

I found doing that kind of comedy without an audience is just... for me, it's almost impossible. You need the audience to do their half of the work.

Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

Ten out of ten people die, so don't take life too seriously.

You say the sweetest things. And that spaghetti perfume you're wearing is to die for. No hobo could resist." She snarled. Heh.

Let your customers say, 'Well, here I am,' while you say, 'There you are!'.

Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure?