Common sense is the best prophet.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.

How you die out in me:down to the lastworn-out knot of breathyou're there, with a splinter of life.

Weeping is like cleansing your soul. It's liberating and somber.

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.

Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.

As with anything you set out to learn in life, you don't get from point A to point Z without touching upon all those letters in between.

If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.

I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in the full-figure. I want to abstract forms.

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.