When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear. ~Irish Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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The silent dog is the first to bite. ~German Proverb
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The silent man is the best to listen to. ~Japanese Proverb
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~Latin Proverb
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The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent. ~Thomas E. Sniegoski
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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Earth to Democrats; displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move. ~Monica Crowley
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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