Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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A family in harmony will prosper in everything. ~Chinese Proverb
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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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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I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started playing clubs in my teens in Georgia. ~Jason Aldean
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say, fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ~Loren Eiseley
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I doubt anyone in Hollywood has had more "dates" than me. ~George Hamilton
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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Truth is time's daughter. ~Spanish Proverb
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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