The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.

What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.

All good things must come to an end.

The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

Many small make a great.

Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.

That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.

Patience is a conquering virtue.

In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.

Some things are not supposed to be forgotten

You never know what's going to happen to you when you head out into the big world. And when you get older, you don't know how you're going to be thought of or seen.

A good jolly is worth what you pay for it.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.

If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.

I think I've scratched the surface after twenty years of marriage. Women want chocolate and conversation.

Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage.

The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.