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Only when you have crossed the river can you say the crocodile has a lump on his snout


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It is only safe to mock a crocodile when you have crossed the river.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
ELIZABETH PETERS If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.
PROVERB If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.
INDIAN PROVERB Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.
CORDELL HULL Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river
CORDELL HULL Don't call the alligator big mouth till you have crossed the river
BELIZEAN PROVERB To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back afte...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river.
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HARRY YOU Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the...
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER If you're going to live by the river, make friends with the crocodile
INDIAN PROVERB Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind."
"Then possibly my answer has crossed y...
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NICHOLAS SPARKS That's the very essence of pork barrelism, when you give a huge lump sum to a person and say, &#...
MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO Never insult an alligator until you've crossed the river.
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ECKHART TOLLE When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life.
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GARY OLDMAN A river can only boast when it is full of fish.
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JOHN LAWSON The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!”
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CASSANDRA CLARE You can say 'No' and smile only when there is a bigger 'Yes' burning inside of you.
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ROBERT FULGHUM Eighty percent of breast lumps are benign. The minute you feel a lump, don't assume you have cancer.
SANDY GRUSHESKY Well, the River Mart. You have to have the River Mart.
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JANE FONDA When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don...
ELIZABETH GILBERT When you get a new paycheck you can throw old ones out. You really only need to have the most recent...
AMANDA WALKER You don't have to say what you need can only be felt by a 'mother'.
PRAVIN PRAJAPATI See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.
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ATTORNEY SHEPACK You might have been on River Road?
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DAVID R. GERGEN You should only say good things when somebody leaves. Robert has gone - good!
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BLAISE PASCAL You can never step into the same river; for new waters are always flowing on to you.
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WELTON JONES You can't have an energy policy that means you can only have a bath when the wind blows.
JIM RATCLIFFE Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when ...
ERICH FROMM Only by his action can a man make (himself/his life) whole . . . . You are responsible for what you ...
MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you.
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KANDYSE MCCLURE The only thing you ever have is now.
ECKHART TOLLE We are not victims by nature...we are programmed to be victims...for good reason...if we truly embra...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN The massive lump of flesh that has created you, me, and maybe, animals, everything that has life wil...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON you can give what you don't have; only when you be a channel.
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only after the last river has ben poisoned,
only a...
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CLARA SCHUMANN I know that asshole you were with in college --”
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PROVERB The time to make friends is before you need them.
PROVERB Short judgments make long friends.
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PROVERB A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
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PROVERB Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
PROVERB From small beginnings come great things.
PROVERB Some will, some don't, so what!
PROVERB Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
PROVERB Try and trust will move mountains.
PROVERB He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
PROVERB Make peace with man and war with your sins.
PROVERB A sin confessed is half forgiven.
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PROVERB Simplicity is the seal of truth.
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PROVERB One is rated by others as he rates himself.
PROVERB Attack is the best form of defense.
PROVERB Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
PROVERB A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
PROVERB When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
PROVERB It is better to be safe than sorry.
PROVERB Better to be safe than sorry.
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PROVERB A good speaker makes a good liar.
PROVERB Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
PROVERB When at a loss how to go on, cough.
PROVERB Speak when you are spoken to.
PROVERB Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
PROVERB The less people think the more they talk.
PROVERB Speak little and to the purpose.
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PROVERB A little body often harbors a great soul.
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PROVERB He has hard work who has nothing to do.
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PROVERB Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm.
PROVERB Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
PROVERB Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.
PROVERB Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
PROVERB By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
PROVERB The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
PROVERB Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
PROVERB A wicked book cannot repent.
PROVERB The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
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PROVERB Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
PROVERB He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
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PROVERB What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home.
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PROVERB We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
PROVERB One of these days, is none of these days.
PROVERB Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
PROVERB Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.
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PROVERB None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
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PROVERB One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
PROVERB No one can pray well, but those who live well.
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PROVERB Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
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PROVERB Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
PROVERB When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.
PROVERB Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.
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PROVERB Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
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PROVERB Why kill time when one can employ it.
PROVERB Forever is a long bargain.
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PROVERB Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
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PROVERB The longest day soon comes to an end.
PROVERB Soon enough is well enough.
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PROVERB No one was ever lost on a straight road.
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PROVERB He that falls by himself never cries.
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PROVERB If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
PROVERB Rome was not built in a day.
PROVERB Patience, money and time bring all things to past.
PROVERB Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.
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PROVERB Patience is the key to paradise.
PROVERB There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
PROVERB Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
PROVERB Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
PROVERB That which is escaped now is pain to come.
PROVERB A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
PROVERB Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
PROVERB It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
PROVERB Riches have wings.
PROVERB A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
PROVERB As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
PROVERB You can't take it with you when you go.
PROVERB After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
PROVERB To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
PROVERB The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
PROVERB Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.
PROVERB Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
PROVERB No price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull.
PROVERB The gods sell all things at a fair price.
PROVERB Something you don't want is dear at any price.
PROVERB We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
PROVERB Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it.
PROVERB Necessity unites.
PROVERB A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
PROVERB It is the truth that irritates a person.
PROVERB If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
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