I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.) [Lat., Oleum et operam perdidi.]

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.

Be not another, if you can be yourself.

Discipline is when we limit ourselves, put borders around ourselves.

A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.

Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.

I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.

Your dreams were the one place you could be physically safe.

The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the end.

I'll always be with you, inside and out," she reads. "Through hard times and helpless ones, through love, through doubt.

Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.

I think being able to really fall in love with someone is the craziest thing that could ever happen. You know, allowing yourself to really go there and really feel those things is extremely scary.