When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding.

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!

I wish for sorrow to be a full stop and happiness to be a comma in my life.

Where there is a monster, there is a miracle.

Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.

Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.

I remain thankful to God for all his mercies.

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.

My old vintage designs are so popular now. I must have been on to something.

Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn't clear ... was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.

The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.