Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~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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A little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German 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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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. ~Tom Robbins
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Do not look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish 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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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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A watched pot never boils. ~English Proverb
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive. ~George Santayana
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