Life is half spent before we know what it is.

The best mirror is an old friend.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.

You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!

In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

The joy of writing drama is putting yourself into different people's heads.

I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties.

How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses.

He also has energy who cannot be deprived of it.

I can't die now, I have so much work to do.

You can say something stupid with an incredible heartfelt sentiment and for some reason, it might be insanely powerful.

Money ... it's both the most complicated and the most passionate relationship in our lives.

We who are left, how shall we look again Happily on the sun or feel the rain Without remembering how they who went Ungrudgingly and spent Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain?