How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!

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.

Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.

On the surface, humans appear to hate conflict, but in reality, they seek it.

Happiness ... can exist only in acceptance.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

The second thing I had to do was not to be reluctant as a leader...And when I started doing that, I realized that people are thriving from this, and that it's so much more helpful for people.

Football isn't necessarily won by the best players. It's won by the team with the best attitude.

I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm.

He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face. We look at each other. I have no rose to toss, he has no lute. But it's the same kind of hunger.

They had to match blood type and meet all sorts of things I don't know about.