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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.
CONFUCIUS Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
JULES RENARD Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
CHINESE PROVERB Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese ...
BILLIE HOLIDAY Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and...
BILLIE HOLIDAY Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before st...
RAMANA MAHARSHI Time and tide wait for no man, but always stand still for a woman of thirty
ROBERT FROST He who waits for a chance may wait for a long time.
NIGERIAN PROVERB Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabit...
RICHARD H. DAVIS Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill.
DANISH PROVERB There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who ...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Ivypool felt her mouth drop open "Hollyleaf? But...you you're dead!"
"Obviously not," the newc...
ERIN HUNTER People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.
KEVIN HART The next time we talk to (Jeremy) will be when he lands in Atlanta, back on U.S. soil. Man, we can't...
CARMELLA HOFFMAN'S I've thrown vanilla beans into mustard. Nothing crazy or grainy, just normal dijon. It's gre...
ALEX GUARNASCHELLI And though you duck them ne'er so long, Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue; On eagles' w...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) I believe that the world will wait long time for a progress and imagination equal to Tesla's.
EDWIN ARMSTRONG Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundre...
ELVIS PRESLEY Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundre...
THOMAS CARLYLE Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundr...
THOMAS CARLYLE Do not wait, there will never be a right time, start from where you stand.
GODWIN ELENDU PH.D The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection f...
ALEXANDER THEROUX I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mout...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How long will you wait for the right time to come? The right time is now and the right place is here...
J.P. VASWANI Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, To...
HENRY VAN DYKE Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, to...
HENRY VAN DYKE Time is/ Too slow for those who Wait,/ Too swift for those who Fear,/ Too long for those who Grieve,...
HENRY VANDYKE I will settle, in the short term,” said Dumbledore, with a bite of impatience in his voice, “for...
J.K. ROWLING On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
ADLAI STEVENSON Time and tide wait for no man.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Time and tide wait for no man.
CHAUCER Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Those who wait for luck to turn their fortunes around, have a long wait before them.
MUHAMMED HAIDER Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
E. M. CIORAN Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
EMILE M. CIORAN A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it o...
DAMIAN LEWIS Children who have been in work for a long time suddenly get a thud down to earth once the cuteness f...
JESSIE CAVE Fourteen years is a long time to wait for a payback.
ED GENERALI Wishing to open my mouth, O brethren, and speak on the exalted theme of humility, I am filled with f...
ISAAC OF NINEVEH Time is Too Slow for those who Wait, Too Swift for those who Fear, Too Long for those wh...
HENRY JACKSON VAN DYKE On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Time is too swift for those who fear, too long for those who wait, too short for those who finally f...
SHANNON L. ALDER To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man ...
HELENA BLAVATSKY It's on Wednesdays, and it's basically a religious service with the second half open to anyone who w...
DANIEL JOHNSON We're an open country with long-standing democratic traditions, and I think the Israelis will pretty...
DANIEL AYALON They also serve who only stand and wait.
JOHN MILTON Time is
Too Slow for those who Wait,
Too Swift for those who Fear,
Too Long for th...
HENRY VAN DYKE It's been a long time in coming, ... When I sat on this roof in 120-degree weather I couldn't wait f...
JAY FOREMAN Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1...
MARTIN FILLER What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath th...
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Sensei says funerals are not really for the dead. They are for those left behind. "The dead are long...
SANDY FUSSELL History teachers help children climb mountains.
JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS Don't waste your time to appease people who have already stumbled in you because of what you stand f...
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or de...
JILL HENNESSY On Christmas Eve, we have a duck or roast pork with caramelised potatoes, braised red cabbage and gr...
BIRGITTE HJORT SORENSEN I don't know if One Direction will stand the test of time. I have a niece who goes crazy for the...
ANDREA BOCELLI This is quick and easy. ...great for single people or small families who don't want to take the time...
IRVING SMITH Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Heaven means to be one with God. - Confucius,
CONFUCIUS So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
FRANZ KAFKA I think a good product would be Baby Duck Hat. It's a fake baby duck, which you strap on top of your...
JACK HANDY I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard...
MICHELLE PFEIFFER Sixteen days is way too long. It's a long, long time to wait to play.
DEBBIE RYAN Patience is doing something about the situation and wait for the result of what you did to fix it. B...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Every Sunday we have pan-fried chicken and we will have an alternative meal, roast beef, roast pork,...
EDDIE SMITH Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
ROBERT FROST Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.
ROBERT FROST Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the ma...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidde...
GALILEO GALILEI It's important that the people of Cherry Hill get to know their candidates and what they stand for b...
ALEXANDER WALKER If Confucius wasn't born, the long night would have no bright lamp.
MENCIUS Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away ... A man should wait...
PLATO Time and Tide wait for no Man; what about woman ? How Sexist !
GAURAV RAO Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
ARABIC PROVERB Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.
ALEXANDRA GUARNASCHELLI Everything comes in time to those who can wait
FRANCOIS RABELAIS It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in...
CHARLES DICKENS Wait for a time, exactly under the star. Then, if a little man appears who laughs, who has golden ha...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Ho...
MICHELLE PFEIFFER Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools ...
NAPOLEON HILL Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tool...
GEORGE HERBERT I don’t create controversies. They’re there long before I open my mouth. I just bring them to yo...
CHARLES BARKLEY He watched Benny Hill all the time. All day long I'd come over and he would be playing Benny Hill an...
CLIFF LANDRY This is very hard on his mom....but this, too, will pass because he's a man who can stand trials and...
MAGGIE WRIGHT I’m sure there are people who are content to run errands and report for work on time and wait, wit...
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep...
JANICE DICKINSON I stand with this family. I stand on the side of this young man,
MAXINE WATERS They wait. They hope. They are on stand-by.
GHAZI GHARIB Everything comes to the man who won't wait
ADA LEVERSON A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
CARL SANDBERG I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
CARL SANDBURG Make yourself solely responsible for resolving problems with other people. If you wait for the other...
VIKRANT PARSAI Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.
ARTHUR J. GOLDBERG Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
ADLAI STEVENSON Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.
ARTHUR GOLDBERG

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