If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity. ~Maya Angelou
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The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. ~Lillie Langtry
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Proverbs are the lamps to words. ~Arabic Proverb
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Gautemalan Proverb
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow. ~Henry Adams
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So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood. ~Hiromu Arakawa
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
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One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. ~Gene Weingarten
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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I love to work, so give me what you have got. I will play a tree, if you want me to. If you want fruit on it, then pay me more money. Otherwise, I just love to work. ~Danny Trejo
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process. ~Abdallah II of Jordan
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