When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin Proverb
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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I never read the tabloids. ~Dana Carvey
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well; and just have fun on stage. ~Joan Armatrading
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. ~Jane Fonda
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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I think inspiration is always around; it is just a question of whether or not you are noticing it. ~John Green
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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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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. ~Amelia Earhart
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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