Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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proverbiosI'm happy that I was able to experience a normal life besides show business, because it gives you something to draw from. ~Ashley Tisdale
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu 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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A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self. ~Ralph Smart
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Love gives life within. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided to.
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Do not look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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