To a boiling pot flies come not.

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!

Worrying about parents is a waste of time. It’s your life. Let’s have a martini.

He didn't just want her now. He needed her. He needed to feel his rhythm in her body, to see if his soul was still there in her pleasure.

I Only Speak in Blood. . .

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.

I like my cinema gritty, I like my eggs gritty.

If someone gets up and walks out of the movie, it means it's really affected them.

The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.

Bleeding feet will bond us.

Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.