Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.

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.

The vain man buys to impress, but the REAL man buys to fulfil a need.

Happiness real only when shared.

You don't realize how easy one is until you have two. Now I'm really a mom. Oh, I am a mom now! This is for serious — I am responsible for two people now.

Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.

The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.

My record is, far as I know, unimpeachable.

You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.

Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all!

Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder.