Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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Advice when most needed is least heeded. ~English Proverb
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Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay. ~John Schlesinger
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth. ~Gautama Buddha
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A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Virtue is its own reward. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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One who asks questions is a fool for five minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African 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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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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