Eating people is wrong. ~Michael Flanders
#quotes #michael-flanders #eating

Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
#proverbs #greatness

Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
#quotes #jane-austen #life #faults

And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
#quotes #kerry-greenwood #helping

Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ~Daisaku Ikeda
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ~Indian Proverb
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
#proverbs #yiddish-proverbs #sorrow

An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. ~Proverb
#proverbs #quotations

He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
#quotes #steig-larsson #desire #addiction

Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
#quotes #andrea-gibson #sorrow

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
#quotes #j-r-r-tolkien #love #inspiration #darkness

But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made. ~Errol Morris
#quotes #errol-morris #documentaries

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity. ~Sun Tzu
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary. ~Billy Crystal
#quotes #billy-crystal #children

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
#quotes #edmund-hillary #skiing

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ~Taoist Proverb
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
#quotes #jane-jacobs #society #innovation #economy

A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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One sister for sale, one sister for sale, one crying and spying young sister for sale. I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding. Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isn't, there isn't there any one person who will buy this sister for sale. This crying spying old young sister for sale. ~Shel Silverstein
#quotes #shel-silverstein #sisters

A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
#proverbs #spanish-proverbs #wisdom