A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
#proverbs #italian-proverbs #wisdom

Whose diggeth a pit shall fall therein. ~Proverb
#proverbs #karma

Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
#quotes #nick-flynn #self #universe #ego

I invented the cordless extension cord. ~Steven Wright
#quotes #steven-wright #humor

Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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Experience this moment to its fullest. ~Zen Proverb
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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I promote a healthy lifestyle. ~Kim Kardashian
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Under the shadow of swords, any plan is good. ~Mehmet Murat Ildan
#quotes #mehmet-murat-ildan #war

Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
#quotes #marceline-desbordes-valmore #books

I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music. ~Simon Cowell
#quotes #simon-cowell #snow-patrol #band #music

Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
#quotes #j-r-ward #ego

A good companion shortens the longest road. ~Kurdish Proverb
#proverbs #kurdish-proverbs #travel

Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
#quotes #carol-plum-ucci #happiness

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
#quotes #abraham-maslow #king #future

[The raindrops] played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. ~Gary D. Schmidt
#quotes #gary-d-schmidt #night

I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. ~Alain Robert
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
#quotes #franklin-d-roosevelt #life #nation

As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else. ~Sarah Lacy
#quotes #sarah-lacy #economy #china

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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