A watched pot never boils. ~English Proverb
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home. ~Evelyn Glennie
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If you want a friend, be a friend. ~English Proverb
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Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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God delays but doesn't forget. ~Spanish proverb
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A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. ~Latin Proverb
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A little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. ~Caleb Cushing
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
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Beggars can't be choosers. ~English Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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One person's craziness is another person's reality. ~Tim Burton
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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