She is neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring.

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

The more the merrier.

It takes nine tailors to make a man.

A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!

It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.

If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained.

When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring.

When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.

Control is not humble; control is arrogant.

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class

There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner.

Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.

There are thousands of paths to God and every one gets you there.

If the unicorn does live among the snows held up forever on the line of the Equator then it is clear why the world should know so little about them.

I was a teenage godmother.

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.