Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

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.

Dreams fuel human beings imaginative response to existence.

That which gives detailed analysis of anger-pride-deceit-greed and puts them aside and doesn’t allow any clashes to occur at home, is known as intellect. It makes one do ‘everywhere adjustment’.

The acquisition of culture requires repose, sitting quietly in a room with a book, or alone with one's thoughts even any crowded concert or art museum.

If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.

Prince Charles is the only member of the Royal Family who ever left Cinderella for the Ugly Duckling.

Make everyday as productive as the day before you go on vacation.

I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.

We are all of us, gods and mortals, made up of many pieces, some of them broken, some of them scarred, but none of them the total sum of who we are.

Don?t make decisions in anger or humiliate an enemy after defeating him.

in all the world there is not someone who does not believe something.