“A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.”

“Even were a cook to cook a fly he would keep the breast for himself.”

“Fish to taste right must swim three times - in water in butter and in wine.”

“God pays but not weekly wages.”

“The greater love is a mother's then comes a dog's then a sweetheart's.”

“The woman cries before the wedding the man afterward.”

“But the huge bowl of the sky remains untracked: no zeppelins, no bombers, no superhuman paratroopers, just the last songbirds returning from their winter homes, and the quicksilver winds of spring ...”

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

“Spring is a sacred soul with a revive spirit.”