A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way. ~Billy Childish
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me. ~Anna Kournikova
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
#quotes #geena-davis #humor

The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ~George Bernard Shaw
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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You can almost believe what you know is not true when you really have to. ~Carol Plum Ucci
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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Courtesy does not exclude courage. ~Spanish Proverb
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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