Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris, Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.]

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.

Stories come to me in mysterious ways, more like dreams than reasoned creations.

Tears are curious things, for like earthquakes or puppet shows, they can occur at any time, without any warning and without any good reason.

I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.

The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.

If my luck held, it wouldn't be a handsome Greek demigod looking for the love of his life or at least his love of a couple of hours.

With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart.

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

When I was ten, I had a weird cinema party where I invited everybody from my street to come. I pretended I was an usher and tried to sell them all popcorn.

I acknowledge the Furies. I believe in them. I have heard the disastrous beating of their wings.

Weight control does have to be for a lifetime or you'll be yo-yoing.