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 silent mouth is melodious. ~Irish Proverb
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Talk to me when I am bored. Be with me when I am sad. Hug me when i cry. Care for me when I am sick. Don't ever cry for me when I die! Just treasure me when I am alive.
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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school. ~Allison Scagliotti
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. ~Frank B. Kellogg
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The silent man is the best to listen to. ~Japanese Proverb
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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"Perfect justice rules the world" for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives. ~Iamblichus
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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