I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. ~Lord Byron
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God. ~Kelly Rowland
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A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. ~J. R. R. Tolkien
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances. ~James Broughton
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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While we teach, we learn. ~Seneca
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All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together. ~Stephen Charnock
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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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I am a sensitive, sensitive person. Overly sensitive. Extremely emotional. ~Mary Lambert
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood. ~Hiromu Arakawa
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Blood is thicker than water. ~English Proverb
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Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ~Ice T
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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A good companion shortens the longest road. ~Kurdish Proverb
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