Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry. [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

To be envied for your giftedness is better than to be accepted for your untalentedness.

If left unexecuted, even the greatest competitive strategies are not worth the paper on which they were written.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

I know I am--that simplest bliss The millions of my brothers miss. I know the fortune to be born, Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.

Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.

I have a lot to be grateful for. I really do kind of get into the holiday spirit and try to find something to be grateful for anyway but this is the time of year so.

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous.

A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.