The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.

The best mirror is an old friend.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.

You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.

The fear of loss . . . it can destroy you as much as the loss itself.

Maybe it's time to stop being a soldier and go home to be a father. And a husband for Deanna. I'm not sure how.

When I have written my last word, I will have taken my last breath.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we suppose ourselves to be.

Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats - the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms - while the field hands are left with the scraps.

Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!

I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire.

I think that the, Ted Cruz is not even a natural-born citizen, argument will resonate for at least the next few weeks.

A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so.