You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for. ~Brian Lamb
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely. ~Cleanthes
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
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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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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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