You cannot write in the chimney with charcoal.

Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie.

When necessity speaks it demands.

No matter how much you feed a wolf he will always return to the forest.

Men show their superiority inside animals outside.

Don't buy the house buy the neighborhood.

If you were born lucky even your rooster will lay eggs.

Believe not your own brother - believe instead your own blind eye.

A sleeping fox counts hens in his dreams.

Gossip needs no carriage.

There was never a saint with red hair.

May your spirit be strengthened.

I sit there on the floor with the picture in front of me and think about how things get broken all the time by accident, and how sometimes you just don't get round to getting them fixed.

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once a minute something generous dies for want of it.

Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics.

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

I definitely believe in marriage.

If only all the contradictory voices shouting in my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care as long as they sang without dissonance.

Just because I was married to Aly Khan, people think I'm rich. Well, I'm not. I never got a dime from Aly or from any of my husbands.

To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.

Look to your experience in dreams to know how you will fare in death. Look to your experience of sleep to discover whether or not you are truly awake.