I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and I was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea.

In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

The murders in Paris are sickening, we stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press.

Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.

My only regret is that we didn't have more kids. I came from a family of four kids, but my wife and I just started too late.

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

Some women chasing men, and some - for dreams. If you are at a fork, remember, your career will not wake up one morning to say that more does not love you.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.