Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

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.

If you fall for someone, make sure they’re there to catch you.

The beauty of this world is fading all too fast through the cruelty and thoughtlessness of men.

I'll be glad to leave here. I feel like eating palm trees. I don't like this place. It's for people with arthritis. They come here to play golf and to die.

In our lives, when we do not create something out of total honesty, it cannot last long.

I'm just so happy and I'm grateful for my fans. I just hope I keep doing work that they love.

For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.

Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? ... a resounding NO: misogyny not only pervades the major faiths, it's baked in.

Bill Knott's poems are . . . rhetorical fluff . . . and fake.

Don't let those people steal your day

There is meaning in all things. But are you paying attention?