For want of a nail the shoe was lost


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AMERICAN PROVERB
For the want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost; For the want of a horseshoe a horse was lost; For th...
UNKNOWN
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ENGLISH PROVERB
(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON
We were kind of cruising with everybody healthy, waiting for the other shoe to drop. We lost a few i...
DOUG ODUM
You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, ...
ALLAN SHERMAN
It was a nail-biting game.
FRANCISCO ELSON
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES
Italy, a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the proverb goes
ROBERT BURTON
You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other ha...
ALLAN SHERMAN
Mostly it was about the success of the shoe: Does the shoe come back? I had to look at it without th...
CAMERON CROWE
Many a Meal is lost for want of meat.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB
I've never had a player have an injury like that. Usually it's a matter of tightening up a shoe and ...
JOHN BRADY
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
For us, the Chinese proverb must be restated: we do not want the gift of a fish; neither do we expec...
FRANCISCO FLORES
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FRANCISCO FLORES
That goal was the nail-in-the-coffin.
KARA SUHIE
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
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I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but th...
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In the mixed doubles it was a nail-biter the whole way.
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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.
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That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
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Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
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There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
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I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
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Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
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Ever so welcome, wait for a call"
(West Indian proverb)
CHARMAINE J. FORDE
Manie things are lost for want of asking.
GEORGE HERBERT
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GLENN HARTMAN
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MICHAEL LEWIS
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I have a lot of boots. I'm a shoe person for sure.
KYLIE JENNER
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
JOHN RUSSELL
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
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May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB
The shame and the downfall of a modern materialistic society is her inability to treasure, care for,...
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Deals under a hundred mil are for shoe clerks.
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The rest was old-fashioned shoe-leather and investigative technique.
PAUL LARRABEE
There is no proverb without a grain of truth
RUSSIAN PROVERB
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RICK RIORDAN
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When you sketch a shoe but don't have the intention to do a proper shoe, it remains a curvy sket...
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS
A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.
ERASMUS
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY
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A nail in the wound.
GEORGE CHAPMAN
I want this spot; there's no doubt. I'm trying to stick the nail in the coffin right now.
JASON GRILLI
If the shoe fits, you're not allowing for growth.
ROBERT N. COONS
It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn't be there at all.
DR. SEUSS
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This is the nail in the coffin for the recession camp.
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -Arab proverb.
ARAB PROVERB
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb).
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FRED DURST
if you nail to a piece of wood you leave a scar on it, but when you nail a virgin you are taking her...
LAURE96
A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.
YUGOSLAV PROVERB
Anyone in the Tooth & Nail or Drive-Thru scene was my thing.
KELLIN QUINN
The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
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EVA CHEN
Nude nail polish wins hands down over intricate nail art.
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They're sort of like a little ballerina shoe,
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