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• You cannot drive a windmill with a pair of bellows.

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• It’s ill to take the breeks off a hielandman.

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• Pigs may whistle, but they hae an ill mouth for ‘t.

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• Carrying saut to dysart and puddings to tranent.

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• Cry not for the hair when the head is off.

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• Mass is not repeated for the deaf.

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• When the itch is inside the boot, scratching outside provides little consolation.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs

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• A buddha made of mud crossing a river cannot protect even himself.

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• You cannot squeeze blood out of a stone.

  Topics in American Proverbs

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• Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

  George Carlin

  Topics in Uncategorized

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• Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.A

  Emil Cioran

  Topics in Life

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• To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs

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• The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

  Albert Camus

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