As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in much poison.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.

If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.

Earnest is our dog. She senses instantly that something is wrong, and guided by that timeless and unerring nurturing instinct that all female dogs have, she tries to lick my ears off.

I feel that people spend as much time skipping songs as they do listening to them in their library.

Sometimes I just think people are haters. And if they're haters, you can listen to what they have to say but you have to take it with a grain of salt.

What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.

I'm a new mum who spends her days making baby food and cooking for her man. And I couldn't be happier.

Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.

Sincere compliments cost nothing and can accomplish much. In any relationship, they are the applause that refreshes.

Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.