To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]

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!

Eat your vegetables, have a positive outlook, be kind to people, and smile - Kamada Nakasato, 102-y/o-female fr. Okinawa

They call it poetry, what she feels with her mouth closed. By his.

I had started at a small startup as a big-company guy. Now I was leaving a big company as a small-startup guy.

This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.

Happy relationships depend not on finding the right person, but on being the right person.

Palestinians were religious in many ways, but they did not subscribe to political Islam, historically.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history.