An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

The more the merrier.

It takes nine tailors to make a man.

A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!

It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.

If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained.

Where the writing takes place doesn’t matter to a publisher, but it matters a great deal to the author.

Will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy.

An atom is a hierarchy of different states of information that define the statistical likelihood of finding a particle here or there at the time of observation.

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Let us live not only to serve God ourselves; let us live to help our children and their children live for God.

I hated skiing or any other sport where there was an ambulance waiting at the bottom of the hill.

I don't think of myself as a singer; I usually end up singing when I can't find anyone better to sing, or when I'm too lazy to find someone better.

The goal is to balance a life that works with a life that counts.

Life is like a simile.

Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,?which is an excellent thing.