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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind. ↗

— William R. Alger

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

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Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true. ↗

— James Richardson

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However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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