He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

The arrows are from her dowry.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

God determine the appointed time and boundaries of influence for every man.

What is is plenty, but more is never enough.

If you let go of fart jokes, you've let go of a piece of humanity.

Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.

[On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food.

No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing.

An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.

Don't be sad about the goodbyes! Because in many farewells, better unions are hidden!

Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.