When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.

Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth.

...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..

The poetry when I was a kid felt like something that I could control, and whether it failed or not, whether it was good or not, was totally on me and I could accept that. It was entirely mine.

I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.

All these years, I found that being a good wife for Jeb is my most important role, no doubt.

Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work.

I have never been able to wear a hat. My hair is peculiar in that it grows so fast that any hat I put on instantly leaps from my head.

People are writing shorter jokes. The style I've started with was almost trying to keep jokes under 140 characters before Twitter.

See the bowtie? I wear it and I don't care. That's why it's cool.

I don't care at all. I don't know the difference from one president to the next.