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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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble. ~Annie Proulx
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down. ~Young Buck
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German 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 bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A dimple on the chin, the devil within. ~Gaelic Proverb
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite. ~Dan Wells
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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