We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor. [Lat., In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium, operam ludimus.]

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.

Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfactions.

You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.

The unforgivable political sin is vanity the killer diet is sour grapes.

The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood.

Our weird problem is an abundance of resources and a shortage of hard economic reasons not to use them.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

I might not be perfect, but I feel perfect. I think that's all that matters.

The older I get, the more frantic my work becomes because I want to get it all done. It's a losing battle, but I try.

I was born in the West Village in New York, and then when I was about four my family moved to what they joke is the suburbs, the Upper West Side. I lived there for most of my childhood.

Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.