Folly growes without watering.

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!

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.

Do not turn to prayer only in times of grief, suffering and rage. Make prayer a habit whether you are blissful or sorrowful, serene or upset, clear or confused.

We are not called upon to do all the good that is possible, but only that which we can do.

Don't believe everything you see on the Internet.

This summer had been about finding herself, and learning to accept love in its various forms -- and to give love. - Quinn Reynolds

If there is a simple, easy principle that binds everything I have done together, it is my interest in people and their relationship to things.

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.

Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.