When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard. ~Gena Showalter
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena? ~Dan Rather
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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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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin. ~Arthur Godfrey
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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Honesty is the best policy. ~English Proverb
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If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. ~David Suzuki
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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