A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ~Johnny Vegas
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I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to. ~Chic Murray
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you will create something magical that might be the best thing you have ever accomplished. ~Tori Amos
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin. ~Pope Pius IX
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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Everything I say is true. ~Laura Schlessinger
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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