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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As proud as a peacock. ~Proverb
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed, can let their veins run cold. ~Wilfred Owen
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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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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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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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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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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay. ~John Schlesinger
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish 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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Blue eyes say, "Love me or I die." Black eyes say, "Love me or I kill thee." ~Spanish Proverb
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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Did you see Howard Dean ranting and raving? Here is a little tip Howard; cut back on the Red Bull. ~David Letterman
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German 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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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. ~Dan Brown
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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ~George E. Allen
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