It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. (Vino Veritas) ~Pliny the Elder
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb
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In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. ~Jerome Bruner
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin' from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock. ~Marty Stuart
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~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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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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Seeing is believing. ~Chinese Proverb
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An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. ~Proverb
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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. ~Pauline Kael
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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