Twelve Highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.

You speak of my drinking, yet you don't know my thirst

Don't marry for money, you can borrow it cheaper.

Better bend than break.

Open confession is good for the soul.

Fools look to tomorrow wise men use tonight.

Give and take makes good friends.

Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.

The Devil's boots don't creak.

A man is a lion in his own cause.

A tale never loses in the telling.

Apparently, dancing for him and throwing herself at him weren't enough. Apparently, she had to nearly commit murder to arouse him enough to attack her.

The blood jet is poetryThere is no stopping it.

On any given night the stars are endless losses or endless gains. One for the love you experience and one for the love you lose. One for the unfulfilled wish and one for the wish yet to come.

Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Like all enjoyable things, you see, it has unenjoyable parts to it.

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.

One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics.

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

The law of flying was not discovered by the contemplation of things staying on the ground.