"A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice," Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true." She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. "Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth." ~Nora Roberts
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ~Wendell Willkie
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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There is something of a painting of a woman that represents all women; and by extension, all of humanity; that I just find very exciting. It is a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive. ~Will Cotton
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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You are what you "tweet".~ Internet Proverb
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ~Richard Owen
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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college. ~Candace Bushnell
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Experience this moment to its fullest. ~Zen Proverb
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I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny. ~Gilbert Gottfried
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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