Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask. ~Kate Winslet
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Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family. ~Joe Scarborough
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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all. ~William Wilberforce
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Because all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen. ~Holly Goldberg Sloan
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow. ~English Proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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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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To the seeing eye life is mostly sparrows. ~Will Cuppy
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental. ~Henry Rollins
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~Thomas Jefferson
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