Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils. [Lat., E malis multis, malum, quod minimum est, id minimum est malum.]

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.

Children with less opportunities often become adults with more flexibility.

Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another.

The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.

That's prayer to let God's Word speak deep within you and tell you, "You are my beloved. You don't have to take an eye for an eye. No, no you're too rich for that."

Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me and give me shape are more acute and the jagging more cruel.

Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.

Roberto Mancini's got that Italian style, the old joie de vivre.

Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.