Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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Don't give advice unless you're asked. ~Amy Alcott
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Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she is cheered on and supported. ~Sheryl Sandberg
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. ~David Suzuki
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
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Last night the Moon asked me, ""Why do not you leave your love if she makes you cry?" I looked back at the Moon and replied, "You are so lonely up there by can you leave your Sky?"
#message #cute #goodnight

I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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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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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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As proud as a peacock. ~Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
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