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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.

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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.

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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

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

  Emil Cioran

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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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