The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.

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.

You have a great potential.Explore your special skills.

Also surprising to scientists have been the recently documented virgin births in captivity of several types of sharks—the hammerhead, the bonnethead (also known as the shovelhead), and the blacktip.

When I get tired, I start eating things that I wouldn't normally crave, like biscuits, because they'll give me a bit of energy to keep going.

The world of modelling can be hard; just as cruel as it is glamorous.

The pleasure is our choice.

On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?

As free and crazy as we want to be, and how much we want to make the world a canvas, there's also a part of us that doesn't want to make any mark.

I come from a family of fishermen. Fishing is very important to us. We don't hunt. We're not gun folk.

Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.

The final and only act of healing is to accept that there is nothing wrong with you.