A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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I definitely have two Olympics in me; I don't know about three Olympics. ~Gracie Gold
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem. ~Christina Romer
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ~Indian Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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Blood is thicker than water. ~English Proverb
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic Proverb
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all. ~Nancy Sinatra
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I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor. ~Ray Liotta
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