Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb.

There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you.

Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.

... the things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind.

My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for them. And of course he was perfectly right.

it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused.

I used to do miserably in English literature, which I thought was a sign of moral turpitude. As I look back on it, I think it was rather to my credit. The notion of actually putting writers' words into other words is quite ridiculous because why bother if writers mean what they mean, and if they don't, why read them? There is, I suppose, a case for studying literary works in depth, but I don't quite know what 'in depth' means unless you read a paragraph over and over again.