To snatch the worm from the trap.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry. [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

Relax and renew your mind.

Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in light.

I knew it was Peter playing. I fancied he was trying to tell me something - an absurd idea, but it persisted - 'I may not be able to spell, but just you listen to this.

The working class must control the factories and the country

Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write when I was too young to know what was good for me.

Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages.

To dispose of a two-headed Org, jump up and down three times, roll a head of cabbage, and giggle!

Whatever I do, I should do it perfectly and correctly

I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.

Father Jude Nnorom says he hopes the pope's travels in Africa will help end all the wars ravaging the continent.