Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

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 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.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.

The last time Sean found trouble, she arrived in a package of blonde hair and blue eyes.” ~ Giles on Jem

Do you believe in magic?, " she asked. "I believe in you, " he said. "And you're the closest thing to magic that I've found.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.

It's good to see that America has a hub for electronic music in Vegas, like Europe has with Ibiza.

People who text a lot are not my favorite thing.

Scratch a schoolboy and you find a savage.

Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.