Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins. ~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 not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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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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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English 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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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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I don't know where life's going, but soon it will be gone. I hope the wind that's blowing helps me carry on. Turn on the radio, baby listen to my song. Turn on the night light baby, I'm gone. ~Marc Cohn
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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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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ~Max Beerbohm
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Better no doctor at all than three. ~Polish Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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The Senate is now considering increasing government subsidies for corn growers to produce more ethanol. If we produce enough ethanol we can postpone our next invasion of a Middle Eastern country for two to three years. ~Jay Leno
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