Small pitchers have wyde eares.

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.

There comes a time in every woman's life where she will decide to eat cookie dough. It is when and how that truly defines her.

So here I was expecting at the very best a cordial welcome from the girls who were prepared to fight me to the death for someone I didn’t want. Instead I was embraced.

God didn't create universe in six days of human measure.God's still working, then hasn't yet reached the seventh day.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.

Run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.

When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.

[T]he only thing the United States government ever did about slavery was to abolish it. Perhaps that was a mistake, but I do not feel inclined to apologize for it.

To be learned, add something each day. To be enlightened drop something each day.

A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle remains our preeminent chronicler of family madness and desire.