What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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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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Though they may not always be handsome, men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. ~Jean Genet
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Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave. ~Kool Moe Dee
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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ~Jorge Luis Borges
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There is a great need to rally the women of the Church to stand with and for the Brethren in stemming the tide of evil that surrounds us. ~Howard W. Hunter
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A little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ~William James
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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