Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.

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!

Instead I take the lead, Tobias silent at my side, and though he does not touch me, he steadies me.

Audience can live without a movie but a movie cannot live without an audience.

One writer may speak of something more lasting than Horace Greeley when he writes of that editor that his secular philanthropy drifted into autocratic ambition.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that is makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

For it is indeed consciousness that makes the body fully alive, and the body that gives consciousness a place to live.

Clever, witty and absorbing, Amortality is a much-needed anatomy of our profound malaise about ageing. Its charms will never fade.

I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.

Ninety isn't old. You're old when your doctor doesn't X-ray you any more - he just holds you up to the light!

Every attempt we make is imperfect; yet each one of those imperfect attempts is an occasion for a delight unlike anything else on earth.