The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention; but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. ~Stephen Merchant
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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Eat little, sleep sound. ~Iranian Proverb
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin. ~Joseph Goebbels
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When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder. ~Julie Newmar
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck; and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee; or you can go out and become an entrepreneur. ~Al Michaels
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
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I just can't sleep tonight knowing that things ain't right. ~Justin Bieber
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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