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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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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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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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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The best place for criticism is in front of the mirror. ~English Proverb
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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Science is not about what is true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence. ~Lee Smolin
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart. ~Proverb
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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