You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read it and then make your partner read it, so they will no longer hate you but pity you instead. ~Harry Enfield
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A lock is better than suspicion. ~Irish Proverb
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Proverbs are the lamps to words. ~Arabic Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda. ~Rick Derringer
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~Will Durant
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It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. ~Richard Dawkins
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin Proverb
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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The sermon is now the true poppy of literature. ~David Swing
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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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Are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love? ~Cecelia Ahern
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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. ~John Calvin
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No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ~John Mortimer
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People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life. ~Katherine Jenkins
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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