For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.

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.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.

I gave her love she gave me words to write

I take the opportunity each day offers.

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.

Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside, you say, "Why are they still married?"

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.

Stand-up used to be much more of a form combat. Heckling was much more common [in the '90s]. And I couldn't get stage time, and so I would go out to Pip's in Sheepshead Bay.

Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old.