I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ~Charles Churchill
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout. ~Samantha Stosur
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. ~Erich Fromm
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James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond. ~Ken Follett
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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Don't be afraid to hit the ball. ~Billie Jean King
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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The silent man is the best to listen to. ~Japanese Proverb
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian 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
#quotes #jackson-browne #wish

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere. ~Ryan White
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing; my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes. ~Gary Kemp
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday. ~John Clayton
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I am not stupid. I didn't say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. ~Sherrilyn Kenyon
#quotes #sherrilyn-kenyon #stupidity #change #xypher #acheron

Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too. ~Kelley Armstrong
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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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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