Who are you? The band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say. ~Janet Fitch
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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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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer. ~Frank Sinatra
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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A picture is worth a thousand words. ~English Proverb
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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