It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

The arrows are from her dowry.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?

The library, like the thrift shop, specialised in the leavings of the elderly dead.

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow the lines to flow as they will when read aloud by an intelligent reader.

George Burns was the father I never had

I’m happier than a pig eating bacon!

If you don't have a way to speak to ordinary Americans, you're not in the game.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they know me by how I act or perform on a tennis court.

shall I, for fear of feeble man who shall die, hold my peace? Shall I for fear of scoffs and frowns, refrain my tongue? Ah, no!