Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

A good husband makes a good wife at any time.

Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.

Those who know the least obey the best.

Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.

Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

Our past doesn’t define us, rather, it’s the courses we take after that tells us who we really are.

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.

On the whole it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.

In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want.

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

That's why you need the war on drugs to put all these pot smokers in prison so that the prisons remain full and the corporations remain profitable. It's a slippery slope.

Once the true relationship between inflation and unemployment is understood, with luck and skill, a free lunch is possible.

A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence."

Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.