But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn. ~Patricia Marx
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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Under the shadow of swords, any plan is good. ~Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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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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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle. ~Jodi Picoult
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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"Feminist comedy," practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children. ~Grace Slick
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Need teaches a plan. ~Irish Proverb
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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Praise the young and they will blossom. ~Irish Proverb
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste. ~Rick Danko
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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