Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I am getting old and I need something to rely on. So tell me when you are going to let me in. I am getting tired and I need somewhere to begin. ~Bil Keane
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ~Shirley Jones
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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A friend in need is a friend indeed. ~Chinese Proverb
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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German Proverb
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German 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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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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The term "genre" eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. ~Christopher Nolan
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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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If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin. ~Joseph Goebbels
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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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
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good. ~Miguel Cabrera
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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There is no place like home. ~English Proverb
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A picture is worth a thousand words. ~English Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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