A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up. ~Jennifer Ellison
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Movements are as eloquent as words. ~Isadora Duncan
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible. ~Paul Michael Glaser
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ~Jorge Luis Borges
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America, it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ~Pat Robertson
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~Elisha Gray
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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The cat was created when the lion sneezed. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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