Not every age is fit for childish sports.

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.

If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.

The way contemporary literature is emerging, soon we can expect "Item poetry" in novels.

At the moment I'm doing this space movie, so I'm obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it's gone. Then I'll be able to superficially say stuff about space.

Through the years as the fire starts to mellow, burning lines in the book of our lives. Though the binding cracks and the pages start to yellow, I'll be in love with you.

I think the only fear that I have in getting married is what if I'm not enough or what if I'm not prepared enough, because I'm the kind of person that likes to be prepared.

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

With every word unspoken each moment comes undone.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.

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