I suspect that hunger was my mother.

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.

There are some mysteries of the universe that ought to remain mysteries.

The Pope is barely Catholic enough for some converts.

I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism

Away from the tumult of motor and mill I want to be care-free; I want to be still! I'm weary of doing things; weary of words I want to be one with the blossoms and birds.

I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.

I was very lucky once I got started with a career. I happened to get some really good parts to play with some really good people to play with.

One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.

I'm realising my dream of owning a top football club. Some will doubt my motives, others will think I'm crazy.

I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try.

Steady of heart and stout of hand.