When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

Don't let expertise fool you into seeing false boundaries or underestimating those with wild dreams.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

This world's a bubble.

Men never think their fortunes too great nor their wit too little.

The sun though it passes through dirty places yet remains as pure as before.

When I was at home I was in a better place but travellers must be content.

Every noble crown is and on earth will ever be a crown of thorns.

I regret often that I have spoken never that I have been silent.

It is easier to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.

Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For everyone that asketh receiveth, and he that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh it shall be...

We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life.

Give me a man with a good allowance of nose ... when I want any good head - work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.

When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me.

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

My advice to those who are about to begin in earnest the journey of life is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.

Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.

If you miss the first buttonhole you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

Satan's friendship reaches to the prison door.

The chain of friendship however bright does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

The covetous man is always poor.

The tulip is among flowers what the peacock is among birds. A tulip lacks scent a peacock has an unpleasant voice. The one takes pride in its garb the other in its tail.

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.