Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

The arrows are from her dowry.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.

I work really hard on the shows and I think the shows speak for themselves. I don't want to construct the show to prove something.

If you believe in the Lord, He will do half the work - but the last half. He helps those who help themselves.

My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at.

That's all the difficulty and the challenge and the battle: to look through this mechanical thing, these bits of glass and metal, at someone. And not lose the sense that this shape is a human being.

Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.

Like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone.

The clever cannot catch the genius; such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird!