"There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men."

"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."

"Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish."

"He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before."

"I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown."

"Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies."

"Whoever said 'Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting' obviously never licked one."

"I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it."

"Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music."

"Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses."

"In life, it is not what you know or who you know that counts -- it is both!"

"It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear."