A bad penny always turns up.
A barking dog never bites.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
A change is as good as a rest.
A dog is a man's best friend.
A fish always rots from the head down.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
A golden key can open any door.
A good beginning makes a good ending.
A good man is hard to find.
A person is known by the company he keeps.
A house is not a home.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
A leopard cannot change its spots.
No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.
I love the women who are coming back to school and getting their degrees because they're so focused.
Truth of life is that in difficult times, my family was my backbone.
I don't come from an intellectual family.
I am a very ambitious girl.
No lock will hold against the power of gold.
Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.
After the shooting, the policeman and taliban stole their weapons and burned the checkpoint and a police vehicle.
My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.
Bands on tour are very good cultivators of what's the avant-garde of comedy.
Fashion never stops. There is always the new project, the new opportunity.
Three things drive a man out of his house – smoke, rain and a scolding wife.
People's imaginations are sort of there for the taking, I guess. If you tell the story right, you're going to hook them.
A lot of Americans don't really leave the country.
Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
