If the young only knew; if the old only could.


French Proverb

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When I have said "If Only", I realised what precious a moment have slipped away.
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If when you’re young you only knew, if when you’re older you still could.
HENRI ESTIENNE
If only…the saddest words in the English language.
KRISTAN HIGGINS
If when you’re young you only knew, if when you’re older you still could.
HENRI ESTIENNE
If youth only knew: if age only could.
HENRI ESTIENNE
We could have been the greatest love story ever told.

If only you'd stayed in character.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT
If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.
PROVERB
If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.
GARY VAYNERCHUK
If only I knew... If only baby... If only...
ANYA
The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.
PAT CONROY
We are past the end of things now, but I don't want to leave.
RICHARD FORD
At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.
BILLY CRYSTAL
I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
BARBARA SHER
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
STEPHEN KING
If only either of us knew the challenges a simple word like forever could bring.
KAITLYN ORUSKA
The only thing that I could think of to do was to be an actress.
SALLY KIRKLAND
Yours till submarines have screen doors.
CAROLE GEITHNER
I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.
JERRY ONLY
We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.
JERRY ONLY
The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch ...
JERRY ONLY
My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.
JERRY ONLY
Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you pro...
JERRY ONLY
There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected e...
JERRY ONLY
Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it.
JERRY ONLY
The Ramones went through a couple different line-up changes, and Johnny and Joey held through the wh...
JERRY ONLY
We're gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guest...
JERRY ONLY
We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.
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The packaging has to really sell the product today, because kids can go out and buy a CD and then 10...
JERRY ONLY
Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to ...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to ...
MONTESQUIEU
I knew I was good because I was the only 14-year-old who could dunk backward.
AMAR'E STOUDEMIRE
If your pain is the same like somebody else, I think that this will be the best couple it will be.
DEYTH BANGER
If I could sing, I wouldn't be a guitarist.
ROBIN TROWER
Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.
EMILY LEVINE
One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB
If we could be twice young and twice old, we could correct all our mistakes.
EURIPIDES
I only wish I could have played in the big leagues when I was young enough to show what I could do. ...
BUCK LEONARD
The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq.
DENNIS MILLER
If we only knew the real value of a day
JOSEPH FARRELL
Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an...
GEORGE NORMAN DOUGLAS
If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that...
LAURA PALMER
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
UNKNOWN
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
HARRIET TUBMAN
I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one.
TAYLOR SHERIDAN
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB
If I could live in a cabaret, I would. If I could live in 'Moulin Rouge,' I would.
RITA ORA
If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.
ENRICO FERMI
You don’t need to worry if people call you ordinary -- only if you are ordinary.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Despite having known him for almost a year, there were a lot of things I still didn't know about Zac...
ALLY CARTER
If only the world were full of truth, things would be better.
JOSH CHILDERS
Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB
Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.
JEAN COCTEAU
They could never beat me in Springfield. I loved that old ballpark. If I could have pitched there al...
TOMMY LASORDA
I wish I had taken Spanish instead of French in high school. I could eavesdrop on a lot more convers...
MEG CABOT
For years I played the what-if game. Maybe you're acquainted with this pastime. The rules are simple...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three ...
RANDY PAUSCH
The only thing that is obscene is censorship.
CRAIG BRUCE
The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism.
DAVID LEE ROTH
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
VINCE LOMBARDI
The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
BARRY GIBB
ADAM AND EVE, sitting in Paradise, chatting:
"If we could only open the gate and leave," says E...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS
I am only young once, who cares if I'm a goofball
ASHTON KUTCHER
If I could have half the career of Diane Sawyer, I'd be a happy woman.
MEGYN KELLY
If I could bring 'The Tunnel' to life, I'd like to do it like that.
BILLY HOWLE
Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
ELIAS CANETTI
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MARC LEVY
I like my old nose. If I could get it out the cupboard and put it on, then I would.
KATIE PRICE
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
PABLO PICASSO
It's a common mistake for vacationing Americans to assume that everyone around them is French and th...
DAVID SEDARIS
Some men are all right in their place--if they only knew the right places!
MAE WEST
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever...
MARGARET MEAD
When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I s...
EDMUND WHITE
Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out?” “I’m nothing special. I’m drowning,” I...
IF I WAKE
I’d scream, but I have no voice. The bullies stole it from me
IF I WAKE
You said I don’t exist in one life. What if each of these lives are designed to teach you a lesson...
IF I WAKE
I’m William James Carter. My friends call me Will,” he says. “I’m Lucy Janette Phillips,” ...
IF I WAKE
I thought I could play at a higher level. And I wanted to get a better education.
IF RICHARD KIRTLEY
I will go across the middle and make a catch. I want to show them I have mental toughness.
IF RICHARD KIRTLEY
He had no clue who I was.
IF RICHARD KIRTLEY
She has a long journey ahead of her. She doesn’t need to hear she will lose before she even begins
IF I WAKE
If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to d...
KARI MATCHETT
If only we could have picked our family...
CHLOE NEILL
If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
EMMET FOX
If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
EMMETT FOX
If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world
EMMET FOX
You could rattle the stars,' she whispered. 'You could do anything, if only you dared.
SARAH J. MAAS
Learning is like a boundless sea, only diligence can reach the shore. - Chinese proverb
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For most young Americans I know, 'serving' in the broadest sense now seems like the only thi...
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I am only young once, who cares if I'm a goofball!
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There were so many places in my time with Rogerson that I wished I could go back to, hitting the sto...
SARAH DESSEN
If youth knew; if age could.
SIGMUND FREUD
If youth knew; if age could.
HENRI ESTIENNE
The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.
MUHAMMAD ALI
The only thing you ever have is now.
ECKHART TOLLE
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
TUPAC SHAKUR
Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.
JOHN BONHAM
The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers.
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War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
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We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
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Money is a good servant but a bad master.
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
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It is overdoing the thing to die for love.
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The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
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One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
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A sin confessed is half forgiven.
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Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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Hope is the dream of a soul awake.
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No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give.
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Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
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Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.
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Skeptics are never deceived.
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.
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In water one sees one's own face; But in wine one beholds the heart of another
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Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.
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Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
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Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.
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It is impossible to overdo luxury
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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.
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Gratitude is the heart's memory.
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Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.
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Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
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If you want the truth, ask a child.
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Honey is sweet but bees sting.
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He that seeks trouble never misses.
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Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
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From word to deed is a great space.
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Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies.
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Better the foot slip than the tongue.
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Anger is a bad counselor.
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A crow is no whiter for being washed.
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If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
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Don't bark if you can't bite.
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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.
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There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.
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A closed mouth catches no flies
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The well traveled may lie with impunity
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Only that which is provisional endures.
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Fortune helps him that's willing to help himself.
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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
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Fine feathers make fine birds
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Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
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Every flow has its ebb.
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There are more fools among buyers than among sellers.
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It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory.
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Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the ...
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Long on hair, short on brains
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A ragged colt may make a good horse.
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A young doctor brings a green churchyard.
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It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
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One bad general is better than two good ones
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One bee makes no swarm.
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'Tis good to go on foot when one hath a horse
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Everything tempts the man who fears temptation
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Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume
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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.
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To compare is not to prove
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To compare is not to improve
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He who is near the church is often far from God
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He who survives will see the outcome.
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The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.
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Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
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Follow the river and you will find the sea
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The first half of life is spent in longing for the second - the second half in regretting the first
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He who takes a partner takes a master
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A bad sheerer never had a good sickle.
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Appearances are deceiving.
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When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry
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To leave a place is to die a little
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Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance
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Who spits against the wind, spits in his own face.
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Who loves well, chastises well.
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The cart leads the horse; the young instruct the old (on reversed governing).
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Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical
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Fresh fish and new-come guests smell when they are three days old.
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Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble
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Everything goes to him who wants nothing
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Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love
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Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve.
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Redheaded women are either violent or false, and usually are both
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A surgeon should be young a physician old.
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Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have.
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A hungry clown is half mad.
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Liars need good memories
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Set your sail to the wind.
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A good lawyer, a bad neighbour.
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All the treasures of earth cannot bring back one lost moment
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You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it
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A late Easter, a long cold spring.
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Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb
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I know by my own pot how the others boil.
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A bad bush is better than an open field.
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This creature is very wicked. He defends himself when attacked.
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Ready money works great cures
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A white wall is the fool's paper
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One for sorrow; two for mirth; three for a wedding; four for a birth.
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Men's ignorance makes the pot boil for priests.
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.
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Fear is a great inventor.
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Life is an onion and one peels it crying
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A good hater; a good lover
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By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear
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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
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God visits us, but most of the time we are not at home
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He who is judge between two friends loses one of them
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Life works out - but not as you expect it
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience
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Love teaches even asses to dance
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There is no perfect marriage, for there are no perfect men
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We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
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Where there's music there can be love
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One is rated by others as he rates himself.
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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.
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There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich
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A black hen lays a white egg.
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No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give
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Ill seed, ill weed
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If it can lick, it can bite
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In water one sees one's own face; But in wine one beholds the heart of another
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He sins as much who holds the bag as he who puts into it
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More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
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One may go a long way after one is tired
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Everyone thinks his own burden heavy
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A year of snow, a year of plenty.
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Penny wise is often pound foolish.
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Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do
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Who is angry must be pleased again.
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting
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Those who shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first.
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Who punishes one threatens a hundred
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It's good to be clever, but not to show it.
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Don't find fault with what you don't understand
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There are no miracles for those that have no faith in them.
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A good husband should be deaf and a good wife should be blind
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One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb
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They are not free who drag their chains after them
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It is a stupid goose that listens to the fox preach
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Great talker, great liar.
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And old rat is a brave rat.
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To believe a thing impossible is to make it so
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What was hard to endure is sweet to recall
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Who never climbed, never fell.
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Think much, speak little, and write less
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He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot.
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He who makes excuses, accuses himself
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Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease.
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Forewarned, forearmed.
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Divorce is the sacrament of adultery.
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Skeptics are never deceived
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One turn serves another.
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The first step binds one to the second.
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There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy
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I'll always be a fat girl and I am happy with that.
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How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? French fries.
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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.
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