Fools build houses and wise men buy them.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

The shortest answer is doing.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Two heads are better than one.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Many things are lost for want of asking.

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Life is an essay you yourself have to write, start to finish.

Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.

Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.

The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress.

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

A bird in the boughs sang "June," And "June" hummed a bee In a Bacchic glee As he tumbled over and over Drunk with the honey-dew.

I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.

An important thing to remember about the press is there is no ideological bias.

You have to be an outsider to write.

As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.