Never speak ill of an absent friend.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry. [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

Do not dwell on your loss. Look forward with bright new hopes.

This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

It's hard to do, " I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. "Get it right.

Being a rock star is being a rock star, I don't need to go into the details. What would you do if you were a rock star?

I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.

Let's put Christ back into Christmas.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

Analogy cannot serve as proof.

I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child. It still shows in how I arrange things. It's always little altars.

The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.