The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect! ~Jonathan Richman
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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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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~Iban Proverb
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well. ~Edward Hallowell
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I would bring things to class that I had cooked at home. ~Giada De Laurentiis
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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