In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent work in her seventh year. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of this statement. We sold her to John Chapel of Oakland City, Indiana, and she was the only queen in his yard with wings clipped. This, however is a rare exception. At the time I was experimenting with artificial combs with wooden cells in which the queen laid. ~Jay Smith
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. ~Patti Smith
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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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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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course. ~Barack Obama
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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