Little losses amaze, great tame.

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!

the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we really are.

Pride is nothing more than false courage without long term solutions.

... one fire burns out another’s burning.One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. -Romeo & Juliet

The madrigore of verjuice must be talthibianised.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.

If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.

All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.

The angels and the devils are definitely within us, not within the machines we use.

Each of the various tactics that have been tried to get Israel to budge.. nonviolent resistance, legal accountability, BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).. has had some measure of success.

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.