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"689 Proverbs & Adages Quotes

Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.

Country Leave Without Off
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Centuries Day Enough Just
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Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity.

Build Monument Veto Impotence
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Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

Actual Times Cowards Deaths
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I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

Second Village Rome First
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Mold Public Sentiment Statutes
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

Rooms End House Like
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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

Say Something People Listen
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People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one

People Flag Weaving Deserve
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Fight the fighters, not their wars.
Fight.fighter Wars
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
Beginning A End Everything
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In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read

Position Read Write Talk
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Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
Snake Poisonous Pretend Venomous
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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

Amazingly Meaning Ordinary Out
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Adversity Met Hath Own
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Tongue Ready Rather Hand
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Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.

Nonsense Makes Heart Grow
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Actions lie louder than words.

Actions Lie Louder Words
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A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Right Moment Better Cleverness
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

Body Evening His Legs
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.

About AllDay Day He
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
Heart Lonely Hunter
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them

People Longed Bad Made
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Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

Town People Old Ones
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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

Bottle Sweetheart Wife Wine
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In the end, we all die, and nothing really matters.

End Nothing Really Matter
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Too hot to handle, too cold to hold
Too Hot Handle Cold
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“The bad guys need to get lucky every time. The good guys just need to get lucky once.”

Bad guy Lucky Time Good
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

Ability Falls Hits Mark
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The dog that trots about finds a bone.
About Bone Dog Finds
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Clock Govern Governed Must
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonderful.

Wonders Discovers Wonderful
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When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

Trouble People Call Sympathize
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
Underdog Often Fight Start
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Blind Ends Eye Making
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Wine is the nurse of old age.
Wine Nurse Old Age
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Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

Those Enslaved Sects Merely
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That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

Bees Cannot Good Which
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But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.

Mermaid Tears Suffer More
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When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.

Bird Heart Begins Sing
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She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.

Laughed Danced Thought Death
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Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.

Death Faster Wind Returns
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It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!
Egg Matter Born Duck
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Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Before Cowards Death Taste
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Now, if we only had as many casks of butter as there are people here, then I would eat lots of butter!

Now Casks Butter People
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The heart that one can see clearly, for the most essential things are invisible
Heart See Clearly Essential
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Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Ear Every Voice Few
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Child Serpent Sharper Than
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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Crown Head Lies Uneasy
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A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

Age Cannot Endure Youth
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