It wasn't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.

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.

Awake my great strength.

We spend most of our lives trying to unlearn much of what we've been taught.

Americans are gluttons. We shop with forklifts. We have a holiday where we stuff food into other food. Our strippers wrestle in Jell-O, where other countries have to use mud.

I have dedicated my life to the way of Allah, Most High.

Whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy.

Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it.

It only seems impossible until it's done.

My new house is going to have wall-to-wall awards!

You need to have a life outside your career.

If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it.