Wine-Counsels seldome prosper.

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 want to visit the snow in Antarctica before global warming turns it into a tropical paradise.

A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them...

My mother used to say that sometimes if you turn a tragedy over in your hand, you can see a miracle running through it, like fool's gold in the hardest shard of rock.

When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

Nobody can commit photography alone.

Life is made up of circles ... Life is not a straight line ... And sometimes we circle back to a past time. But we are not the same. We are changed forever.