The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

The arrows are from her dowry.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.

In a 50 mile radius around Chicago one can see the red aura of pain, agony, terror, anger from all the animals being butchered there.

It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

A little bit of laughter and an occasional adult beverage never hurt nobody.

Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right.

All humour is critical, you know? You make stupid jokes. I mean, stupidity is an infirmity, isn't it?

War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

I think that religion is an integral part of human needs, but the question also is how you understand religion.

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.