Good men need no recommendation and bad men it wouldn't help.

Ask not for a lighter load but for broader shoulders

What you don't see with your eyes don't invent with your tongue.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

When you have no choice mobilize the spirit of courage.

Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.

The innkeeper loves the drunkard but not for a son-in-law.

The poor schlemiel is a man who falls on his back and breaks his nose.

The hardest work is to go idle.

Truth is the safest lie.

A half-truth is a whole lie.

I became the fractured shell of a mustard seed to dwell for an eye-blink amid a starburst galaxy of broken dreams.

The busy have no time for tears.

I'm not a fast driver. I've seen what speed can do.

You will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present.

But after a certain point in a marriage, you stopped having a certain kind of fight, Olive thought, because when the years behind you were more than the years in front of you, things were different.

To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.

People want to act like they know celebrities. They want to see pictures. They want to know where you're going. They want to hear you talk about your family.

A message came on the wireless for me. It said: ''. So the time had come, I thought, Eighth Army was taking the offensive. The date was, I think, May18th,1942.

To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown; But where there is true friendship, there needs none.

I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.