Life, French proverb

Man proposes and God disposes.

- French proverb

인간이 계획하고, 신이 바꾼다.

- 프랑스속담

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France and French people, Life

Goddess, Josephine Angelini

She had power over the most magnificent forces on Earth, but she still didn’t feel like she had power over the most important thing of all—her own heart.

― Josephine Angelini, Goddess

Advice, Western Proverb

The belly has no ears. - Western Proverb 배는 귀를 갖고 있지 않다. - 서양속담 배 고프면 아무 소리도 들리지 않는다.

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Reference (관련 속담) A cabin with plenty of food is better. - Western Proverb 수염이 대 자라도 먹어야 양반이다. - 한국속담 배가 불러야 체면도 차릴 수 있다는 뜻으로, 먹는 것이 중요함을 비유적으로 이르는 말.

Happiness, Nicole Kidman

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

- Nicole Kidman

미래를 좌지우지하겠다는 욕망을 버리면 더 행복해질 수 있다.

- 니콜 키드먼

Honesty, Thomas Fuller

Honest men fear neither light nor dark

- Thomas Fuller (1608~1661)

정직한 사람은 두려워할 게 없다

- 토머스 풀러(Thomas Fuller, 1608~1661) 영국의 성직자이자 작가

Beard, William Shakespeare

He that hath a beard is more than a youth; and he that hath no beard is less than a man.

- Beatrice, from William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act ii, scene i

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Beard

Love, Ambrose Bierce

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.

- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

Sweetness, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation (1841)

Advice, Indonesian proverbs

Ada asap ada api.

Translation: There is smoke there is fire.

- Indonesian proverbs

English equivalent: Where there is smoke, there is fire.
Meaning: "There is no effect without some cause. or It is supposed that if there is a rumour, there must be some truth behind it."
Source for meaning of English equivalent: Paczolay, Gyula (1997). "1". European proverbs: in 55 languages, with equivalents in Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese. Veszprémi Nyomda. p. 33. ISBN 1-875943-44-7.
Atmosumarto (2004). A Learner's Comprehensive Dictionary of Indonesian. Atma Stanton. p. 26.

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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Indonesian_proverbs

Natural gas, Edward G. Rendell

Look, natural gas, just like oil, is going to eventually go away. It's not renewable.

- Edward G. Rendell