A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~Woody Allen
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To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well. ~Edward Hallowell
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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The problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Samuel Eto'o but he is 32 years old; maybe 35, who knows? ~Jose Mourinho
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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It is good for us to get into the Word, but it is much better for the Word to get into us. ~David J. Stewart
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The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story. ~Scott Rudin
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I have the courage of my convictions. ~Brigitte Bardot
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
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For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. ~Helen Suzman
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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One sister for sale, one sister for sale, one crying and spying young sister for sale. I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding. Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isn't, there isn't there any one person who will buy this sister for sale. This crying spying old young sister for sale. ~Shel Silverstein
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