A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as "don't make a mistake." And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out. ~Bernard L. Schwartz
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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Plaid is always cute and always will be. But only on the bottom. At the top, it makes you look like a farmer. ~Jen Lancaster
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you; at any time. ~Harold Pinter
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When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats. ~Jill Lepore
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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life, the lesson of your utter insignificance. ~Joseph Brodsky
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. ~Robyn Davidson
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Gardening is a humbling experience. ~Martha Stewart
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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I am going to embarrass myself. I have accepted that fact, and that is just how it is going to be. ~Jen Lancaster
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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Movements are as eloquent as words. ~Isadora Duncan
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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