Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.

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.

I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.

My mom bought me this amazing baby-food maker, the Beaba. I steam and puree fruits and vegetables, and they last for, like, four days.

Age and want sit smiling at the gate.

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

I don't write my music for Sony. I write it for the people who are screaming down the road crying to a full-blast stereo.

We cannot expect too little from man nor too much from God.

It's funny, the whole cooking thing came out of just a random thought of writing a cookbook with my mom and my sister for fun.

First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy.

We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.'