Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have the courage of my convictions. ~Brigitte Bardot
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together. ~Willie Nelson
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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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Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. ~Jane Fonda
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him; and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love. ~Alberto Moravia
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I'm at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep they will have someone to talk to. ~Rodney Dangerfield
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It is amazing how many people beat you at golf now that you are no longer president. ~George H. W. Bush
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Hope is a risk that must be run. ~Georges Bernanos
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being; just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. ~Henrik Ibsen
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I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
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Need teaches a plan. ~Irish Proverb
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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. ~Oscar Wilde
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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