A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. ~Rumi
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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Idleness is the beginning of all vices. ~Proverb
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It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching "Coronation Street." ~Amelia Warner
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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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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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I am not a fan of what we call "friendly fire" or "blue on blue." We don't want to have that. ~Tommy Franks
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez. ~Erik Estrada
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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I am fortunate in that I am a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. ~Paul Kane
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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