It well becomes a young man to be modest.

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.

give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me

Just ask for what you want. I requested a six-month break from Facebook to visit my parents I asked to switch projects. I told my husband it was time to get married after six years of dating!

There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.

I can live with losing, I can't live without taking my chance.

It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore... a lot of stuff people don't even hear.

There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen.

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

That lovely things exist is a lovely thought.

The hardest part is starting. Once you get that out of the way, you'll find the rest of the journey much easier.

Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.