Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ~Maria Monk
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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We are actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself. ~Linda Gray
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda. ~Rick Derringer
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition. ~Joe Scarborough
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready. ~Nancy E. Turner
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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
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