A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets. ~Democritus
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish 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 loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen 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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It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. ~Irvine Welsh
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh 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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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to. ~Jackson Browne
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