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But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn. ~Patricia Marx
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One who asks questions is a fool for five minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb
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proverbiosThe mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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Who does not thank for little, will not thank for much. ~Estonian Proverb
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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No one was ever lost on a straight road. ~Indian Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. ~Indian Proverb
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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