Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
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Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex. ~Warren Farrell
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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The problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Samuel Eto'o but he is 32 years old; maybe 35, who knows? ~Jose Mourinho
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A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. ~Latin Proverb
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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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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people; not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene. ~Dierks Bentley
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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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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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right. ~Sean Astin
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