Every bees hony is sweet.

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!

There comes a time in the development of every ego when it must love its neighbors or become a twisted and stunted personality.

Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.

It's nice to live in a country that has its priorities straight: the library's open three hours a week, and the House of Fist is 24/7.

My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important

Ever since I was a little child, I refused to see movies of books that I loved. Because you already know what Heidi looks like and she doesn't look like Shirley Temple.

No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.

What you fear most of all is - fear. Very wise.

The story begins only when the book closes.

Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.

I’d wait forever for you, as long as you’re mine.