If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. ~Alain Robert
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games. ~Lincoln Chafee
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I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager. I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I did'nt really care. It did'nt bother me at all. ~Vivienne Westwood
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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~Iban Proverb
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Did you see Howard Dean ranting and raving? Here is a little tip Howard; cut back on the Red Bull. ~David Letterman
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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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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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As far as I'm concerned, I did'nt dream; ever. ~Theodore Sturgeon
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Will is stronger than fact; it can mold and overcome fact. ~H. G. Wells
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As proud as a peacock. ~Proverb
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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