If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin Proverb
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I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up. ~Jennifer Ellison
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. ~Gene Weingarten
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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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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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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