Keep what you have got; the known evil is best. [Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]

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.

The surge of his ardour swept through him in climatic release, filling her womb with his final, mortal sowing.

How do you express a skinny blonde werewolf and a former toad in a cake?

A safe and inclusive society is worthless if a person cannot speak their mind. Censorship and manufactured outrage are the problem and not the solution.

If you read a label and just look up the ingredients, you'll be able to figure out really easily what's good for you and what's bad.

I'm a one-nation Tory.

Each moment is a moment of choice ~ a time to leave the old, the limited, the restrained, and the contracted for the new, the unbound, and the liberating potential that expands before you.

Superman loves everyone. He's like Jesus except he punches people.

In Texas, we have the death penalty, and we use it. That's right. If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back.

Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.

If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he's good or bad, I think you're starting out in the wrong direction. I think we're all good and we're all bad.