Royal: [laying some flowers on the grave of his mother - Helen O'Reilly Tenenbaum, 1899-1954] She was a tough old broad, wasn't she? Chas: I wouldn't know. Excuse me. [he starts to head off with his sons Ari and Uzi to visit their mother's grave] Roy...
[Jack is teaching Rose how to spit] Rose: Mother! May I introduce Jack Dawson? Ruth: Charmed, I'm sure. [Old Rose, voice in off] Old Rose: The others were gracious and curious about the man who had saved my life. But my mother looked at him like an i...
The day he was to sell the children from their mother he would tell that mother to go to some other place to do some work and in their absence he would sell the children. It was the same when he would sell a man's wife, he also sent him to another jo...
And now it [grass] seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves, Tenderly will I use you curling grass, It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men, It may be if I had known them I would have loved them, It may be you from old people, or ...
It's better that it should make you sick than that you don't eat it at all.
The monkey says there is nothing better than poverty to unlearn man of his conceit.
If the dog barks, go in; if the bitch barks you had better stay outside.
Until your fortieth it is better to eat than to drink; afterwards it is vice versa.
Better one day a man than ten days a woman.
The shame you can't lift away, you had better let lie.
One good word puts out the flames better than a bucket of water.
You would do better to sit on a powder keg than on the knee of a woman.
A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue.
Better visit hell in your lifetime than after you're dead.
If you have nothing better to do, go to bed with your own wife.
When the wolf invites you in, you had better take your dog.
Better to go to bed hungry than to wake up in debt.
Better to sit all night than to go to bed with a dragon.
There is no faith in the smile of the rose
My mother was my best friend and confidante.
She was a genius, my mother.
