Men are men they needs must err.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.

So easy to go sailing off this road. A wonder more folks didn't. All that space, waiting.

The isolated imagination is easily corrupted by theory, but the writer inside his community seldom has such a problem.

...ethics were in most cases a burden that could be reasonably ignored in pursuit of necessity.

Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.

To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.

Do as we say, and not as we do. [Lat., Faites ce que nous disons, et ne faites pas ce que nous faisons.]

Out of near disaster, came real progress.

You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax - tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough.

Most of us, when asked to gauge the richness of our lives, think immediately of people. Those who have cried with us, laughed with us, and shaped who we are.

If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.