When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long. [Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.]

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

The arrows are from her dowry.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away.

My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...

I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.

Tomorrow is no place to place your better days.

I want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see."

I believe when hard-working citizens have earned their pension, it's wrong for Washington bureaucrats and politicians to take their pensions away.

I've always used humor, but I use humor when coping with things in general.

[On middle age:] ... the very real possibility for you of growing fat as you near death and thus being seen by everyone while you are both DEAD AND FAT.

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control.