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Between two stools one sits on the ground. [Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.]
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs ...
KARL KRAUS
Dostoyevsky described hell as perhaps nothing more than a room with a chair in it. This room has sev...
BRUCE ROBINSON
Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb
JAPANESE PROVERB
One thing that I feel like I have been able to do is transition between those two sports very easily...
JEREMY BLOOM
Shara now sits on committees that decide who shall be nominated to be committee chairs for other com...
ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT
Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
He who is judge between two friends loses one of them
FRENCH PROVERB
But it is said and ever shall, Between two stools lieth the fall
JOHN GOWER
One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS)
challenges; the great wall between those who stand and those who fall
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to...
G.K. CHESTERTON
Love between two adults is always conditional. You can fall out of love because you are able to fall...
BRYAN CRANSTON
I don't want to speak to two empty chairs,
ROGER CLEMENS
Refuse to fall down. If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward ...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES
It's such a simple idea: two mikes, two chairs, two human beings looking into each other's eyes,
DAVID ISAY
This may simply be rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
MICHAEL GREENBERGER
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
WOODROW WILSON
When he sits down, his ears pop
DON NELSON
May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns... and may the moonshadow never fall on you...
ROBERT FANNEY
No. And if Sherman sits him down, they'll sit Sherman down.
JIMMY JOHNSON
The unknown is generally taken to be terrible, not as the proverb would infer, from the inherent sup...
H. RIDER HAGGARD
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
WOODROW WILSON
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
WOODROW T. WILSON
People want to know which chairs we think are the most comfortable, and I tell them we're selling th...
JEANETTE MORRISETT
May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB
I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people... those who choose to be masters of their ...
LISA KLEYPAS
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
COLETTE
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptio...
ALAN LIGHTMAN
The scale between players is so easily tipped, that one call, one point does make a huge difference.
CLIFF DRYSDALE
One woman never praises another. Estonian Proverb
ESTONIAN PROVERB
He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly.
LAUREN OLIVER
The great mass of people will more easily fall victems to a big lie than to a small one.
ADOLPH HITLER
They don't really know who they are until someone sits them down and gives them the chance to think ...
EMILY LAND
Two cannot fall out if one does not choose.
SPANISH PROVERB
Two cannot fall out if one does not choose
SPANISH PROVERB
I like all the chairs to talk to one another and to the sofas and not those parlor-car arrangements ...
MARIO BUATTA
He who jumps may fall, but he may also fly.

It’s time to jump.
LAUREN OLIVER
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
ADOLF HITLER
The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.
ADOLF HITLER
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.
ADOLF HITLER
The broad mass of a nation . . . will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.
ADOLF HITLER
The minds of young people are pliable and elastic, and easily accommodate themselves to any one they...
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
ADOLF HITLER
The broad mass of a nation . . . will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.
ADOLF HITLER
Beginning this fall, the $7 has been divided into two equal $3.50 deposits - one deposit for fall an...
JEFF EDWARDS
Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one c...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL
Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the ab...
G.K. CHESTERTON
Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.
JIM BISHOP
If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is n...
DONNA JO NAPOLI
A meeting between two beings who complete one another, who are made for each other, borders already,...
ADOLF HITLER
One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB
There's a thin line between genius and bottom-barrel stupidness. I hover delicately on a tightrope b...
SUZANNE CROWLEY
You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue -- agree with him.
EDWARD W. HOWE
You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue--agree with him.
ED HOWE
The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair a...
ARNOLD SCHOPENHAUER
A Prayer
Refuse to fall down
If you cannot refuse to fall down,
refuse to stay...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS
Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and...
WOODY ALLEN
The ability to focus is the key separation point between those who move ahead and those who fall beh...
ORRIN WOODWARD
I've always been curious about why one man jumps out of a foxhole with a grenade and charges a m...
STEPHEN LANG
The one who, having killed the serpent, released the seven rivers; the one who drove out the cows by...
RIG VEDA
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend.
THEODORE H. WHITE
A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure ca...
BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON
It is lose-lose situation. Anyone who expects prompt fiscal correction in Hungary may easily be disa...
ZOLTAN TOROK
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
JOHN RUSSELL
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL (1)
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom
JOHN RUSSELL
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
STEPHEN KING
Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
WOODY ALLEN
The first two months, in April and May, the majority of the time was spent doing interviews to compl...
WILLIAM ANDREWS
I find it beautiful when we're in Italy that everybody sits down at the table together. My mothe...
DEBI MAZAR
Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.
JIM BISHOP
Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him.
GERMAN PROVERB
There's always one or two holes to fill and you never know who may step up and surprise you.
CRAIG BEHAN
The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
GARTH BROOKS
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition betw...
BIBLE
We want to overcome the gap between the people who generate science and those who use it. Many peopl...
KATHY JACOBS
The two co-chairs of the [Black Leadership Institute] decided to contact who they thought were very ...
AARON BLAKE
They blame him who sits silent, they blame him who speaks much, they also blame him who says little;...
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER
He has made contacts, personal friendships, with each and every one of the so-called leadership Demo...
PETER BURLING
One man on two boats, will fall into the water sooner or later.
ADRIAN ADAM LEE
For it ne sits not unto fresh May Forto be coupled to cold January.
JOHN LYDGATE
He didn't fall down on purpose. I made him fall down.
JAMES HARDY
As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers ...
RAM DASS
The distance between two souls-one is infinity, outside.
MARIANA FULGER
You may fall down when you dance on the edge but edge is the source of all miracles and mystery.
AMIT RAY
There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
JOSH BILLINGS
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
JOHN RUSSELL
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. English Proverb (17th century)
ENGLISH PROVERB
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL
I've heard that one superintendent is in favor of it. (Another) superintendent says you're just rear...
JOHN DRUZBICK
Two may keep counsel, putting one away
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Ye...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
I'm getting outstanding feedback from Conservative Party chairs. I met only one who supports Pirro, ...
EDWARD COX

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Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
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Forever is a long bargain.
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Time and I against any two.
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Now is the watchword of the wise.
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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
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Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
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Riches have wings.
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A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
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You can't take it with you when you go.
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The gods sell all things at a fair price.
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Something you don't want is dear at any price.
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