If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.

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.

He's exasperated. "I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!

The future is of greater interest to me than the past, since that is where I intend to spend the rest of my life.

After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.

I'm sorry for croaking at you this evening. This is PM, I'm Eddie Mair: the walrus of news.

If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do.

Any way to make a workout feel like playtime is great.

I may be preaching to the choir, but the choir needs a good song.

I have just committed the mortal sin of laughing in the Members' Library. No-one around here has done that for a while.

Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.

When you want to change your circumstances, you must first change your thinking.