The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.

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.

That's the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor".

Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.

I have very strict rules in my head that seem to me to be the way things should sound.

I cannot wait for all the mistakes we have yet to make

Truth is, of course, relative. But then, so is relative.

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.

Being a mom can be so isolating, and hanging out with other moms is very, very healthy.

A man in the house is worth two in the street.

Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.