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«Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.»
«Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.»
«If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard»
Author: Jesse Owens (Athlete) | Keywords: Olympics, the Olympics, yard| Occasions: Olympic
«If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house.»
Author: Mike Harding | Keywords: In the House, yard
«Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.»
Author: Truman Capote (Novelist, Playwright, Writer) | About: Books | Keywords: finishing, out in, shot, took, yard
«[at prof. Frink's yard sale]Three dollars and it only transports matter?!»
«Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard»
Author: Paul McCartney (Musician, Singer) | Keywords: junk, shop, sign in, yard
«He who is unable to dance says that the yard is stony»
Author: African Proverb | About: Dancing | Keywords: stony, unable, yard
«Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of late-breaking news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are often continued in the next yard.»
«As much use as a yard of pump water»
Author: Proverb | About: Water | Keywords: pump, pumping, pumps, yard

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