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Unquotable Quotes - Ix

Unquotable quotes – IX You cannot have your cake and eat it, but you can have your meat and beat it. Sow your wild oats on a sow and your tame oats on a milch cow, and reap what you sow. See not evil, speak not evil but fiddle evil. Silence is olden. Blood is thicker than 70% of the body. If you eat your fill, who will foot the bill ? Since l’habille ne fait pas le moine, what if the monk goes about in his birthday suit ? Money makes Bunnies look funny. When a white-collared worker marries a blue-collared worker, they invariably produce a red-collared sucker. The only impermanent resident is the President. It is only raining cats, not dogs. We are just kissing cousins in the parloir but not in the boudoir. Wake not a man asleep and tell him his wife has given him the slip. Snakes and Ladders : To skid and fall is a blessing compared to climbing a ladder and falling from a height and being hit on the head by the falling ladder while the snake is waiting and hissing… © T. Wignesan – Paris, 2016

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