I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. ~Jon Scieszka
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
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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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Advice when most needed is least heeded. ~English Proverb
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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Idleness is the beginning of all vices. ~Proverb
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. (Vino Veritas) ~Pliny the Elder
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine. ~Robert M. Parker
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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Honesty is the best privacy policy. ~Internet Proverb
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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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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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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