When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ~Shirley Jones
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We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved. ~Julia Barr
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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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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole. ~Arthur Capper
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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All my friends I've known since I was really little. ~Leona Lewis
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The superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness. ~Chinese Proverb
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I am fortunate in that I am a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. ~Paul Kane
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Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed. ~Kent McCord
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ~French Proverb
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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