More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.


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More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
PROVERB
You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
AMERICAN PROVERB
You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.
CHARLAINE HARRIS
As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?
ANDREW CUOMO
A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar
PROVERB
You catch a lot more flies with honey than vinegar, as they say, though I warrant you get even more ...
THOMM QUACKENBUSH
A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Tart words make no friends; a spoonful or honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.
RICK KAPLAN
A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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MICHAEL SERVETUS
Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB
You can not get honey from flies
VICTOR PEREZ CENTENO
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a li...
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON
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Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB
One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB
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AESOP
Where you are with what you have, what you can do.
DHARM BABU
And the books and spreadsheets help me avoid some traps. I have a tendency to remember bad things mo...
DAVE DUNCAN
They were like flies to honey last year; they were just drooling over that rod. We could have had Pa...
JIM SMITHAM
After that, we were like flies stuck in honey, alive but not really living.
MARTHA HALL KELLY
I could have sexual chemistry with vinegar.
JESSICA ALBA
Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
POPE JOHN XXIII
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
POPE JOHN XXIII
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
HONORE DE BALZAC
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
HONORé DE BALZAC
It doesn't matter are you good with the dice, you die. It really doesn't matter what are you doing e...
DEYTH BANGER
Pussy is sweeter than honey and more valuable than money.
MARY B. MORRISON
When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the fl...
STEPHANIE BEACHAM
More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the h...
BIBLE
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. English Proverb (17th century)
ENGLISH PROVERB
The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.
SARAH FIELDING
Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA)
The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.
CARINE ROITFELD
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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
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VIOLETA GARCIA
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LIBBA BRAY
I like myself better when I'm with you.
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
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NORM TOMLINSON
When you think well of others, cheerful with everyone, find the good in all there is, you are direct...
SISI MODISE
The doctors with ailments not willing to take the treatment should be treated first. The doctors wit...
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What woman would not appreciate a God who becomes her attorney, assumes her case, requires no fee, a...
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You run with time , it is in day or night has less important. If not run then time run away. You nee...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER
I am too perfect... to be here with you...
DEYTH BANGER
…If anything else, all I ever did was love you….
BETH FANTASKEY
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HARUKI MURAKAMI
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.”

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ALVIN TOFFLER
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
THOMAS CARLYLE
What kind of tea do you want?"
"There´s more than one kind of tea?...What do you have?"
"...
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I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong w...
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You wouldn't walk with your underpants stuck in your bottom, you'd adjust them. So don't treat the i...
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Better ride safe in the dark, says the proverb, than in the daylight with a cut-throat at your elbow
SIR WALTER SCOTT
You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY
The images of the devastation of 1900 are always with us. It's engraved in our collective consciousn...
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I like simple food, seasoned with just salt, pepper, oil and vinegar. Complicated food and complicat...
SIRIO MACCIONI
French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries.
ROBERT KIYOSAKI
Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK
We will never be capable of true relationships with others if we continue to view them as others.
CHRIS MATAKAS
Get out of your own way! Learn to work with yourself instead of against.
AKIROQ BROST
A woman apologizing first in an argument to a man is like giving a freebie, which often has a big hi...
ANUJ SOMANY
The day will last for sometime. But at night, when I am with you, it last forever.
IVANN RODRIGUEZ
We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be...
MITCH ALBOM
Queen of my tub, I merrily sing,
While the white foam rises high,
And sturdily wash, and r...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Time marches on...with or without your ass
DENNIS BARTON
In Love I find myself.
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE
You create the flow, you are a leader, you go with the flow, you are a follower, if you are up again...
APURVA GAGLANI
Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when ...
TOM ROBBINS
I realized I love him just as much or more than I did four years ago. That I'm never live with him" ...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN
Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL
Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask...
JAY NORTHCOTE
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MARY J. BLIGE
Hold a true friend with both hands. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS
God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.
ARABIC PROVERB
As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
CICERO
Right there I was just trying to protect. I think he caught a little bit more plate with that pitch ...
B.J. UPTON
More doors are opened with "please" than with keys.
UNKNOWN
Photo shoots for underage girls are like letting an ant walk around with honey.
JANICE DICKINSON
What I really love are acai bowls, with berries, granola, and so much honey.
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Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's...
IDINA MENZEL
It is better to deal with the devil we know than the devil we don’t know.
VIKRANT PARSAI
A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
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The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
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UPS now flies to more points in China than any other US airline, freight or passenger.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common tha...
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You can't be jealous of someone else's results. You don't know the prayer, process, sacrifice, and w...
GERMANY KENT
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
HENRI AMIEL
Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB
Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB
Water flows because it's willing.
MARTY RUBIN
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LARRY MCMURTRY
Go with the flow even if there are rapids ahead.
JIM GENOVESE
Don't resist life, flow with it.
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War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
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Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
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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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Kindness is like snow - it beautifies everything it covers
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It is overdoing the thing to die for love.
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Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in 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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If the young only knew; if the old only could.
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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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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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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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