It would not be better if men got what they wanted.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.

The trouble with cousins, Lizabeth thought, was that they knew all about you, even your allergies.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

We don't believe we are too sexy for our hair.

I want to make my own life a masterpiece.

Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.

Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet.

Work needs to be the single biggest requirements. No more waivers as this administration has done. There should be real work eligibility.

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!'

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.