If you speak insults you will hear them also.

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.

I was only able to move forward once I let go of my fear of leaving him behind.

I am your stone of necessity calling up spirits from rain puddles—your Magus of words

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring.

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me

People do horrible things when they're young. There might be betrayal and there might be things that should be forgotten.

TV spots are short. If you can't hold folks' attention for 20 seconds before revealing the brand, find another line of work.

In vulgar usage, progress has come to mean limitless movement in space and time, accompanied, necessarily, by an equally limitless command of energy: culminating in limitless destruction.

More energy is encapsulated in every drop of good spring water than an average-sized PowerStation is presently able to produce.

Love conquers all things.