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"689 Proverbs & Adages Quotes

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

Binge Depths Ether Helpless
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

Hero Me Show Tragedy
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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

American Blind Food Leading
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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Being Burden Camel Free
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

Act Affect Again Consequences
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.

Look Meaning Weigh Words
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.

Ambition Makes More Need
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He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

Adversity Knows Met Own
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He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Fool Himself Master Only
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He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.

Bread Currency He Labor
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
Imagination Meaning Natural Truth
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Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

Artificial Humility Makes Pride
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Absence Evidence Not
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Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Grey Hairs Natural Property
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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Bad Good Lawyers People
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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Around Half Lie Shoes
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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
Ark Perseverance Reached Snail
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No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Appearance Miserable Person Poor
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The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

Animals Childhood Innocence Lot
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Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

Dress Look Woman
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Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Companion Death Guilt Most
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Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Face Fifty Merit Nature
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Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

Dance Give Never Sword
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Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Change Stupidest Wisest Men
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Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Betrays Friend Silence True
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Comfort Deemed Fit Love
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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Impossible Love Nothing Patience
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

Covetousness Evil Poverty Root
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Appreciate Elephant Foot Injustice
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Birth was the death of him.

Birth Death Him
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There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

Between Difference Finger Fool
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No man is hurt but by himself.
Himself Hurt Man
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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

Face House Man Place
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The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

Art Master Rule Slave
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The great thieves lead away the little thief.

Great Lead Little Thief
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Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Banana Intellectual Life Property
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

Straw Vote Only Shows
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
Between Distance Longest Places
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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
Borrow Interest Paid Trouble
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Animal Eat Friendly He
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Cast Everything See Shadow
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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Accepts Against Evil Helps
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Against Healthy Instinct Like
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My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!

Advice Give Kids Percent
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Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
Better Even May Paradoxes
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Always Asked Being Between
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
Better Disliked Pitied Than
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
Books Public Quarrels
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

Dresses Etiquette Like Lying
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

Commerce Honor Long Prevails
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