Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end. ~Emily Mortimer
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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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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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes. ~Nguyen Cao Ky
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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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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. ~Oscar Wilde
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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The silent dog is the first to bite. ~German 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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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full. ~Spanish Proverb
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them. ~Rabindranath Tagore
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations, well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing. ~James Cromwell
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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