Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.

There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.

Everybody that is born on the surface of this earth, has this wealth called time.

There's pearl of the orient seas but it happens to be also a pearl of orient corruptions.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can't do for another straight man.

I played the mom in Spy Kids when I was, like, 27. So it was ridiculous. But [Robert Rodriguez] was like, "You know what? If we do our job right, no one will question it." And nobody did.

The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.

Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

She was nice to him on Valentine's Day. She gave him a heart-shaped rash.

When you have the chance to fight for victory or a podium finish, you have the motivation to push that extra bit out of yourself.