Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person. ~Alana Stewart
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Death pays all debts. ~English Proverb
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The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I had been up all night inventing the Camcorder. ~Al Gore
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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A healthy man is a successful man. ~French Proverb
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
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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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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all. ~Alice Eve
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