Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

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.

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.

I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the first place.

In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! - I hope I'll be safe at home!

She said 'I love you' as if it were a secret, and an immense one.

People don't really recognize me often. I think I just look different in person or something. I'm also not very approachable, and maybe they're just like 'Ooohhh, she's scary!'

Hollywood has turned into an emotional Detroit.

The biggest misconception usually is to assume that I am a scientist and that I work for scientists. I work for the public to access the surreal and fantastical in science.

We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing.

I'm not used to getting good reviews.

Open-mindedness is the harvest of a quiet eye.