Every great house is full of haughty servants.

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

The arrows are from her dowry.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Sometimes words I think are small come out big.

A rose trapped inside a fist.

How can you use what most excites, angers, or upsets you to achieve what you want to be, do or experience?

I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime.

Like watches over like, as the saying goes.

But monument themselves memorials need.

Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on Art.

You can just fight one man at a time.

An act of imagination is an act of self-acceptance.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.