Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently. [Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

But I am not those people. I am just the biologist

Duct tape can't fix stupid, " Bas growled. "Maybe not, " Red replied, "but it can hold it down and muffled the screams.

The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves.

Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.

I think the noblest thing you can do is ask for help. And I mean that about therapy. I mean that about dieting.

There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost

the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.

Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.