You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
#quotes #paul-merton #teaching

God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision. ~Charles Stanley
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I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ~Phyllis Diller
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Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him; and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love. ~Alberto Moravia
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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"Why do you give me cars?" "It's fun," Ranger said. "And it keeps you safe. Do you want to know why keeping you safe is important to me?" "You love me?" "Yes." A sigh inadvertently escaped. "We're really screwed up, aren't we?" "In a very large way," Ranger said. ~Janet Evanovich
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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A promise is a debt. ~Proverb
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A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably. ~John Bunyan
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A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. ~Matthew Henry
#quotes #matthew-henry #human

Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. ~Epictetus
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It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. ~Hermann Hesse
#quotes #hermann-hesse #respect #relationship #honor

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
#quotes #ben-jonson #reality

I am getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan. ~Michael Reagan
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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