Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English 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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Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. ~Jan Karon
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Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score. ~Frank Leahy
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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 good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question. ~Bill Keller
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Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught. ~Eric Ries
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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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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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave. ~Kool Moe Dee
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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