Necessity is the spur of the fine arts.
Love is blind.
Poverty is the mother of invention.
Take courage, my friend; tomorrow may be a better day for you.
Take heart; perhaps tomorrow will be better.
Youth passes like a dream.
For the idle, every day is a holiday.
When Theocritus was asked why he did not write more, he replied: "Because I prefer to write little and well rather than much and poorly."