A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch 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
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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There's a myth that free-to-play is cheaper than a $60 game. It's just elastic. For some users, it winds up being a lot more expensive. I would have paid $150 a year to get a better version of FIFA. ~Mitch Lasky
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~English Proverb
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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I am very pleased to be involved with the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee because its message resonates with me on a very personal level, My own career is an example of the universal power of music, especially the power of Hip Hop, to bring people of different backgrounds together for a common purpose. I hope that my commitment to the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee will encourage all music lovers, both amateurs and professionals - to get involved with the Music Days performance network and contribute to the "Harmony For Humanity" e-Stage. ~Russell Simmons
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions. ~Aristotle
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention; but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. ~Stephen Merchant
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. ~Sigmund Freud
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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