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As the old proverb says 'Like readily consorts with like.'

Cicero
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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

George Gissing
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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Miguel de Cervantes
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Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.

Don Henley
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There's an old African proverb that I have on my desk that says a lot about partnerships. If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

Patty Stonesifer
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Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

Nicholson Baker
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A proverb and a by-word among all people.

Bible
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There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.

Soichiro Honda
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A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

John Russell
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For us, the Chinese proverb must be restated: we do not want the gift of a fish; neither do we expect a lesson on fishing; what we direly need is a chance to fish.

Francisco Flores
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Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the candle in barbed wire. When I first lit the Amnesty candle, I had in mind the old Chinese proverb: 'Better light a candle than curse the darkness.'

Peter Benenson
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The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

Thomas S. Szasz
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For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.

Bill Bradley
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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

John Morley
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It's the old proverb: 'It is better to give than to receive.' Without knowing it, I had brought along all I needed to survive.

Ethan Zohn
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