It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

By words the mind is winged.

Be brave and take risks… You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward.

Sometimes people try to expose what's wrong with you, because they can't handle what's right about you.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.

Now it's like a fog has lifted. I sense Leetu just as clearly as I can see the moon.' Your eyes are closed, and the moon as a haze around it.

Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that.

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.

Men are just as willing as women to marry up, and life is now giving them the opportunity to do so. So, women, own up to your accomplishments, buy him a drink, and tell him what you really do.

I sincerely believe that everything - everything - is grace, and you have to stick around long enough to see it through. I'm a very optimistic person.