Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!

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.

Never embrace a version of the gospel that doesn't require you to do life with someone who isn't like you.

But words in a book were one thing. The true test came in battle.

everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all.

Why is it that drama always starts late? Whereas comedy always seems to have started already.

Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.

I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.