Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. ~Jon Scieszka
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Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible. ~Moby
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. (Vino Veritas) ~Pliny the Elder
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What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory. ~Milton Friedman
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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Speedy exception is the mother of good fortune. ~Proverb
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The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine. ~Robert M. Parker
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Truth is time's daughter. ~Spanish Proverb
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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