The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ~Irish Proverb
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder but it has no soul. ~Sylvia Plath
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ~Plato
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Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. ~Kenyan proverb
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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If you want something done well, do it yourself. ~English Proverb
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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