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"689 Proverbs & Adages Quotes

Don’t go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.

Every Get With Pot
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God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees.

Heal Fee Take The
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He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare.

Known Exact Time Spare
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

Fool Have Honest Are
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After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.

After Pair Found Half
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A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

Search Bottom But Nothing
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Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.

Beautiful Kind Pain Every
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A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

Person Few Little Make
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Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.

Home Earth Will Our
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Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

Dress Remember Impeccably Shabbily
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To one who asked what was the proper time for lunch, he said,

Proper Time Lunch Rich
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Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

Pen Sword Obvious Encounter
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A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.

Woman Strong Hot Teabag
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We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Build Future Youth Always
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Present Control Future Past
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Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.

Repeat Remember Past Condemned
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.

Earn Respect Find Approval
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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Present Erase Past One
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Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.
Entrusted Empire Fit Only
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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Same River Step Twice
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

Weep Say Evil Tear
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.

Glass House Door Live
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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Pour Store Harm Vessel
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The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guarded.

Spirit Guardian
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Don't go in and hide; don't come out and shine; stand stock-still in the middle.

Middle Hide Shine
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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

Dark Mind Once Again
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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Happen Week Decade Where
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Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Action Bring Always But
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You should always go to other people’s funerals. Otherwise, they won’t come to yours.

Always People Other Come
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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.

Mad Naked Walks Kinsmen
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The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
World Mask Dancing Stand
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Only you can decide how your fires will affect you. Will you be sanctified or scarred.

Decide Affect Scarred Sanctified
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.

Answer Answering Because Had
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You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

Because Careful Get Going
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I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.

Always Broken Record Stand
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The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

Close Could Hardly Suitcase
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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Always Come Funerals Go
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And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Life Exempt Good Tongues
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If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

Frog Best Job Biggest
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The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

Cat Lives Difference Lie
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As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.

Roar Footing Head Back
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A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

Good Bark Talk Man
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Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

People Feel Wet Other
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When the root is strong, the fruit is sweet.

Root Fruit Sweet Strong
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And what has been hidden from the wise and the prudent been revealed in the mouth of the toddlers.

Been Wise Mouth Hidden
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No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
Free Bird Sky Even
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All the money you make will never buy back your soul.

Back Soul Never Buy
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He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Beast Pain Being Rid
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When all is said and done, more is always said than done.
Done More Always Than
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Everybody dies but not everybody lives.

Die Everybody Live But
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