Covetousnesse breaks the bag.

The best mirror is an old friend.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.

You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!

Self-confidence is contagious.

If you just mimic the surface of somebody’s work without understanding where they are coming from, your work will never be anything more than a knockoff.

All clients think that they are architects.

The scotch egg is such a Scottish food. It's as though a great Scottish chef said: I need a tasty snack. Let's take an egg... and wrap it in meat!! Makes it a bit harder.

I would spend my nights at home but if it means contention. I'd rather be alone tell the service man cut the phones.

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

It seems that everything is part of the maturing process

Pity for him who one day looks uponhis inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost.