May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. ~Henry David Thoreau
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York. ~Michael Arad
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse. ~Jaron Lanier
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin
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