I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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The silent man is the best to listen to. ~Japanese Proverb
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Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day. ~Stephen King
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it. ~Paul McEuen
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In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled. ~John Burroughs
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ~George Bernard Shaw
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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