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The mason who strikes often is better than the one who strikes too hard


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He who strikes first, strikes twice.
MEXICAN PROVERB A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.
H. L. MENCKEN WHEN BOREDOM STRIKES HUNGER STRIKES TOO!
MIRTEL CARBIèRE After witnessing the power of the force, Luke Skywalker exclaimed, "I don't believe it!" His Jedi me...
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.
BRET EASTON ELLIS He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument.
CHINESE PROVERB He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument
CHINESE PROVERBS We felt we needed pitchers who could throw strikes. The two players we sent out were not throwing st...
NED COLLETTI He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.
CLAUDIUS CLAUDIANUS Strikes are the only way to protect worker's rights. If anything there are too many taxes in Italy, ...
GABRIA CARLINI The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
CHINESE PROVERBS He strikes fear in the hearts of people who try to cover him.
BRIAN METRESS It comes down to who can throw strikes and get guys out.
LARRY WAYMAN It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insu...
EPICTETUS He who strikes his father or mother his hand will grow out of the grave.
VIKRANT PARSAI You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.
CONNIE MACK This was a hard decision but a stand we had to take to put an end to these continued strikes and thr...
CASSANDRA PHELPS Such strikes are never good for the economy. But in the past strikes haven't halted an economic upsw...
JOERG KRAEMER We looked at too many strikes and just didn't have the pitch selection (on Wednesday). Against Sacra...
DIANE NINEMIRE When trouble strikes, which it always does - bad economy, bad quarter, activists, takeover - when tr...
CAROL BARTZ We're hitting much better than I thought one through nine. We like to put pressure on defense by mak...
CARM MAZZA One thunderbolt strikes
root through everything
HERACLITUS I was trying to throw strikes. That's what happened, I didn't throw strikes. I have to come back to ...
PEDRO ASTACIO When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.
UNKNOWN People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one fea...
FRANCES BURNEY I've very rarely seen the ball hit that hard. Cass knows to adjust with two strikes.
DAVE PETROCELLI What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.
UNKNOWN The Empire strikes back.
GEORGE LUCAS Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretend...
GEORGE SAND Three strikes and you are out
PROVERB His Majesty needs a can-I girl anyway. And I’m not it.”
“A can-I girl?” Andrea frowned....
ILONA ANDREWS Curran looked at me. “What the hell was I supposed to do, catch the werebison as he was falling?
ILONA ANDREWS There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE They don't get any tougher than that. Two outs, two strikes in the ninth.
LLOYD MCCLENDON Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we ar...
DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ (Davis) threw strikes. Our defense is good and if we get people throwing strikes we're going to get ...
CRAIG MILBURN Sometimes, you're the one who strikes it lucky. Sometimes, it's the other poor bastard who's left wi...
M.L. STEDMAN We couldn't get the bunt down and then Brittany had two strikes and hit the ball hard, but it ended ...
MARISSA CHOVANEC The man who seeks your advice too often is probably looking for praise rather than information.
VIKRANT PARSAI One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing ...
ALEXANDER POPE One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing...
ALEXANDER POPE One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing...
ALEXANDER POPE One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing...
ALEXANDER POPE Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
ANDY ROONEY In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes...
WALTER LIPPMANN When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal...
PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
FRANK OZ Episode IV -- The Empire Strikes Back.
RICK MCCALLUM Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN She's always around the plate and she does a good job of throwing strikes. When they're not swinging...
EVANS BOUCHARD Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.
UNKNOWN It is lightning that strikes, not thunder.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
ROBERT BURTON Every great wave of popular passion that rolls up on the prairies is dashed to spray when it strikes...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm
PHYLLIS BOTTOME I am not comfortable with the life-against-death generalization that Freud makes; it strikes me as t...
PETER GAY A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN Sen. McCain isn't someone who strikes you as a particularly dynamic speaker. He doesn't seem...
MIKE GALLAGHER Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, ho...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
ERIC SEVAREID Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rathe...
SIR ROBIN DAY is indignant and condemns the American strikes on Sudan and Afghanistan.
BORIS YELTSIN Mr. Weld knows less about solving strikes than he does about running trade schools.
DARREN DOPP We just have to figure out who goes where in our bullpen. We got guys who just couldn't find the pla...
ERIC MCARTHUR What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known on...
PAUL THEROUX What he does is throw strikes and mix his pitches up. That's what he does well. Any pitcher that thr...
BENGIE MOLINA I knew as long as I did that, there wasn't going to be much trouble. That's what I did on Sunday, to...
JAMES GILBERT The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbli...
SLAVOJ ŽIžEK When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thoug...
RICHARD SAVAGE Star Wars: Episode V -- The Empire Strikes Back
MICHAEL SHEARD Lightning never strikes twice (in the same place)
PROVERB Often, evicted families also lose the opportunity to benefit from public housing because Housing Aut...
MATTHEW DESMOND It strikes me as low.
MARC GARLASCO A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in ob...
ALEXANDER POPE The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
FRED A. ALLEN The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
FRED ALLEN A successful person is often one who has failed more than most.
KEN POIROT Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE Of a rascal and a serpent, the serpent is the better of the two, for he strikes only at the time he ...
CHANAKYA There's a lot of pretext strikes, I can tell you, ... That's part of what a judge has to do, is find...
HENRY WADE It strikes a cord of authenticity,
TOM MCLOUGHLIN I was just hitting. With two strikes, you just go up there and battle. That's what you do against a ...
GRADY SIZEMORE When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.
MOHSIN HAMID When you go out there and throw strikes, no matter who you are, you're hard to beat. That's what he ...
ED EASLEY No struggle, no success! The strongest thunder strikes often bring the heaviest rainfall! The weight...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I feel very confident with two strikes. I feel it's more of a freedom. I get very upset with myself ...
DAVID ECKSTEIN With two strikes, that was a big homer. Anytime you see a guy do that with two strikes it's a plus.
CARL HUNCKLER You talk to scouts and you keep hearing there is a real shortage of pitching. There's a real shortag...
BILL BAVASI It's better to be one who is told to wait than one who waits to be told.
JOHN G. MILLER In Italy, there are many strikes - perhaps more than in any another country - but usually they respe...
ANTONIO MARTONE He throws the ball 90 miles an hour. We just need him to throw strikes. If he can throw strikes, he'...
RICH PAPIRIO Strikes are the only way to protect worker's rights.
GABRIA CARLINI It strikes me as unChristian that we often have more charitable attitudes toward ideological allies ...
DAVID KINNAMAN Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN When boredom strikes, creativity takes over.
OLASOT Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes mino...
VIRGINIA POSTREL It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if h...
VASH YOUNG The weakest arm is strong enough, that strikes
With the sword of justice.
JOHN WEBSTER Being ready before the storm strikes is sometimes the difference between life and death.
JEFF LAST

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IRISH SAYINGS Nodding the head does not row the boat
IRISH SAYINGS A blind man can see his mouth
IRISH SAYINGS It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life
IRISH SAYINGS A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
IRISH SAYINGS There is pain in prohibition
IRISH SAYINGS When mistrust comes in, love goes out.
IRISH SAYINGS You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
IRISH SAYINGS When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.
IRISH SAYINGS Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice
IRISH SAYINGS The longest road out is the shortest road home
IRISH SAYINGS Poor is the church without music
IRISH SAYINGS It's no delay to stop to edge the tool
IRISH SAYINGS Fear is a fine spur
IRISH SAYINGS Poverty parts good company
IRISH SAYINGS He who can follow his own will is a king
IRISH SAYINGS When the fruit is scarcest its taste is sweetest
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IRISH SAYINGS Better one good thing that is than two good things that were
IRISH SAYINGS Questioning is the door of knowledge
IRISH SAYINGS A cabin with plenty of food is better than a hungry castle
IRISH SAYINGS Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools
IRISH SAYINGS Anything will fit a naked man
IRISH SAYINGS It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.
IRISH SAYINGS Better fifty enemies outside the house than one within
IRISH SAYINGS Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth
IRISH SAYINGS But the greatest love - the love above all loves, Even greater than that of a mother - Is the tender...
IRISH SAYINGS A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures
IRISH SAYINGS It's for her own good that the cat purrs
IRISH SAYINGS There are fish in the sea better than have ever been caught
IRISH SAYINGS Put silk on a goat and it is still a goat
IRISH SAYINGS What is in the marrow is hard to take out of the bone
IRISH SAYINGS The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune
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IRISH SAYINGS If you're lucky enough to be Irish, then you're lucky enough.
IRISH SAYINGS The devil never grants long leases
IRISH SAYINGS Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.
IRISH SAYINGS A lock is better than suspicion.
IRISH SAYINGS There is not a tree in heaven higher than the tree of patience
IRISH SAYINGS Some prefer carrot while others like cabbage
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IRISH SAYINGS A sly rogue is often in good dress
IRISH SAYINGS Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom.
IRISH SAYINGS All sins cast long shadows
IRISH SAYINGS Do not mistake a goats beard for a fine stallions tail
IRISH SAYINGS Fear is a fine spur, so is rage
IRISH SAYINGS Though honey is sweet, do not lick it off a briar
IRISH SAYINGS Winter comes fast on the lazy
IRISH SAYINGS A scholars ink lasts longer than a martyrs blood
IRISH SAYINGS A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse
IRISH SAYINGS A silent mouth is sweet to hear
IRISH SAYINGS It's the first drop that destroys you - there's no harm at all in the last
IRISH SAYINGS I believe in the sun when it's not shining, I believe in love even when I feel it not, I believe in ...
IRISH SAYINGS Falling is easier than rising
IRISH SAYINGS A new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows the corners
IRISH SAYINGS He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday.
IRISH SAYINGS Treachery returns
IRISH SAYINGS A buckle is a great addition to an old shoe
IRISH SAYINGS The herb that can't be got is the one that heals
IRISH SAYINGS Good luck comes in slender currents, misfortune in a rolling tides
IRISH SAYINGS If you dig a grave for others you may fall into it yourself
IRISH SAYINGS You must empty a box before you fill it again
IRISH SAYINGS Count your joys instead of your woes; Count your friends instead of your foes.
IRISH SAYINGS The only cure for love is marriage
IRISH SAYINGS A good retreat is better than a bad stand
IRISH SAYINGS Put a beggar on horseback and he'll gallop
IRISH SAYINGS Patience can conquer destiny
IRISH SAYINGS It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who wil...
IRISH SAYINGS Three diseases without shame: Love, itch and thirst.
IRISH SAYINGS Beware of people who dislike cats
IRISH SAYINGS Great hate follows great love
IRISH SAYINGS The stars make no noise
IRISH SAYINGS Everyone is nice till the cow gets into the garden
IRISH SAYINGS It is not easy to steal where the landlord is a thief
IRISH SAYINGS Its no use going to the goat's house to look for wool
IRISH SAYINGS The thief is no danger to the beggar
IRISH SAYINGS There is no reason to fear the wind if your stack of hay is well tied
IRISH SAYINGS There is no fool who has not his own kind of sense
IRISH SAYINGS Two shorten the road
IRISH SAYINGS Gardeners know the best dirt
SAYINGS For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.
IRISH BLESSINGS May your days be many and your troubles be few. May all God's blessings descend upon you. May peace ...
IRISH BLESSINGS Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot.
IRISH PROVERB You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Albert Einstein -Irish proverb.
IRISH PROVERB May you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you are dead.
IRISH PROVERB A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood.
IRISH PROVERB Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.
IRISH PROVERB Hope is the physician of each misery.
IRISH PROVERB The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs
IRISH PROVERB Wisdom is a comb given to a man once he is bald.
IRISH PROVERB Great hate follows great love.
IRISH PROVERB A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied.
IRISH PROVERB A turkey never voted for an early Christmas.
IRISH PROVERB Praise the young and they will flourish.
IRISH PROVERB May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon you...
IRISH BLESSINGS May you never forget what is worth remembering, nor ever remember what is best forgotten
IRISH BLESSINGS The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
IRISH BLESSING Praise youth and it will prosper.
IRISH PROVERB Everyone is wise until he speaks.
IRISH PROVERB You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
IRISH PROVERB The believer is happy, the doubter is wise.
IRISH PROVERB It's no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking.
IRISH PROVERB If you get a reputation as an early riser, you can sleep till noon.
IRISH PROVERB If you dig a grave for others, you might fall into it yourself.
IRISH PROVERB Good luck beats early rising.
IRISH PROVERB Give away all you like, but keep your bills and your temper.
IRISH PROVERB Even the longest day has its end.
IRISH PROVERB Don't break your shin on a stool that is not in your way.
IRISH PROVERB Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.
IRISH PROVERB Better be quarrelling than lonesome.
IRISH PROVERB A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
IRISH PROVERB A light heart lives long.
IRISH PROVERB A lie travels farther than the truth.
IRISH PROVERB A kind word never broke anyone's mouth.
IRISH PROVERB A hair on the head is worth two on the brush.
IRISH PROVERB A diplomat must always think twice before he says nothing.
IRISH PROVERB May you have love that never ends, lots of money and lots of friends. Health be yours, whatever you ...
IRISH BLESSINGS Better own a trifle than want a great deal.
IRISH PROVERB It s no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking.
IRISH PROVERB One eye in the corner is sharper than two about the house.
IRISH PROVERB Half a loaf is better than no bread.
IRISH PROVERB Patience cures many an old complaint.
IRISH PROVERB Its for her own good that the cat purrs.
IRISH PROVERB Don't tell your complaint to one who has no pity.
IRISH PROVERB One beetle recognizes another.
IRISH PROVERB You must crack the nuts before you can eat the kernel.
IRISH PROVERB He who comes with a story to you brings two away from you
IRISH PROVERB By degrees the castles are built.
IRISH PROVERB The old pipe gives the sweetest smoke.
IRISH PROVERB A hen is heavy when carried far.
IRISH PROVERB Lack of resource has hanged many a person.
IRISH PROVERB "May love & laughter light your days and warm your heart & home. May good & faithful friends be your...
IRISH BLESSING When the sky falls we'll catch larks.
IRISH PROVERB What would a young cat do but eat mice?
IRISH PROVERB Bless your little Irish heart and every other Irish part.
IRISH BLESSINGS Many an Irish property was increased by the lace of a daughter's petticoat.
IRISH PROVERB May your thoughts be as glad as the shamrocks, may your heart be as light as a song, may each day br...
IRISH BLESSINGS Many a man's nose was broken by his mouth.
IRISH PROVERB May St. Patrick guard you wherever you go, and guide you in whatever you do and may his loving prote...
IRISH BLESSINGS A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy.
IRISH PROVERB May the Holes in you Net be no larger than the Fish in it
IRISH BLESSING May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And ma...
IRISH BLESSINGS For each petal on the shamrock this brings a wish your way. Good health, good luck, and happiness fo...
IRISH BLESSINGS May the raindrops fall lightly on your brow. May the soft winds freshen your spirit. May the sunshin...
IRISH BLESSINGS May the Holes in your Net be no Larger than the Fish in it,
IRISH BLESSING May you be forty years in heaven before the devil knows that you are dead.
IRISH BLESSING May you be fourty years in heaven before the devil knows your dead.
IRISH BLESSINGS May you live a long life full of gladness and health.
IRISH BLESSINGS May brooks and trees and singing hills join in the chorus too, and every gentle wind that blows send...
IRISH BLESSINGS These things I warmly wish for you Someone to love, some work to do, A bit o' sun, a bit o' cheer, A...
IRISH BLESSINGS May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live
IRISH BLESSINGS When the first light of sun, Bless you. When the long day is done, Bless you. In your smiles and you...
IRISH BLESSINGS May the strength of God pilot us, may the wisdom of God instruct us, may the hand of God protect us,...
IRISH BLESSINGS I couldn't act, but I could swing through the trees.
IRISH MCCALLA May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light. May good luck pursue you each morning and night.
IRISH BLESSINGS Its no use boiling your cabbage twice.
IRISH PROVERB If you have one pair of good soles its better than two pairs of good uppers.
IRISH PROVERB May your joys be as bright as the morning, and your sorrows merely be shadows that fade in the sunli...
IRISH BLESSINGS He'd offer you an egg if you promised not to break the shell.
IRISH PROVERB May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past
IRISH BLESSINGS May you get to heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead
IRISH BLESSINGS There never was an old slipper but there was an old stocking to match it.
IRISH PROVERB May God grant you always...A sunbeam to warm you, a moonbeam to charm you, a sheltering Angel so not...
IRISH BLESSINGS May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings righ...
IRISH BLESSINGS May you always have walls for the winds, a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire, laughter to cheer...
IRISH BLESSINGS A drink precedes a story.
IRISH PROVERB Bulls get rich, bears get rich, but pigs get slaughtered An Irishman is never at his best except whe...
IRISH PROVERB The best way to keep loyalty in a man's heart is to keep money in his purse.
IRISH PROVERB May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day. May songbirds serenade you every step...
IRISH BLESSINGS May God give you...For every storm a rainbow, for every tear a smile, for every care a promise and a...
IRISH BLESSINGS The fox never found a better messenger than himself.
IRISH PROVERB It is sweet to drink but bitter to pay for.
IRISH PROVERB Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.
IRISH PROVERB If you want an audience start a fight.
IRISH PROVERB For what cannot be cured patience is best.
IRISH PROVERB It is a long road that has no turning.
IRISH PROVERB Humor to a man is like a feather pillow.It is filled with what is easy to get but gives great comfor...
IRISH PROVERB Your feet will bring you to where your heart is.
IRISH PROVERB A wild goose never reared a tame gosling.
IRISH PROVERB The world's quiet and the pig is in the sty.
IRISH PROVERB It is the quiet pigs that eat the meal.
IRISH PROVERB Thirst is the end of drinking and sorrow is the end of drunkenness.
IRISH PROVERB You are not a fully fledged sailor unless you have sailed under full sail,
IRISH PROVERB A poem ought to be well made at first, for there is many a one to spoil it afterwards.
IRISH PROVERB A silent mouth is melodious.
IRISH PROVERB Good as drink is, it ends in thirst.
IRISH PROVERB Possession satisfies.
IRISH PROVERB May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night and a smooth road all the way...
IRISH BLESSINGS Show the fatted calf but not the thing that fattened him.
IRISH PROVERB It is a bad hen that does not scratch herself.
IRISH PROVERB Snuff at a wake is fine if there's nobody sneezing over the snuff box.
IRISH PROVERB Walk straight, my son - as the old crab said to the young crab.
IRISH PROVERB Need teaches a plan.
IRISH PROVERB God likes help when helping people.
IRISH PROVERB The wood will renew the foliage it sheds.
IRISH PROVERB A poor person is often worthy.
IRISH PROVERB It is often that a cow does not take after its breed.
IRISH PROVERB Marriages are all happy its having breakfast together that causes all the trouble.
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