Once I saw my parents argue because we didn't have a lot of money anymore. So, I did what I had to do. I got my piggy bank and I went out to the backyard and buried it. ~Jack Handey
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I try to write like the writers I admire, I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase. So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work. ~Brad Paisley
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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Every proverb speaketh sooth; dreams and omens mask the truth. ~Welsh Proverb
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish 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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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
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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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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
#quotes #edgar-degas #art #attitude

To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education. ~Melanie Griffith
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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