Blood is thicker than water. ~English Proverb
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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You have got to have a problem that you want to solve, a wrong that you want to right. ~Steve Jobs
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ~John Shelton Reed
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process. ~Abdallah II of Jordan
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. ~Edward Young
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If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you do not wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese 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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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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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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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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