Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!
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Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!
I don't want to die now!" he yelled. "I've still got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!
If you want to resolve a dispute or come out from conflict, the very first thing is to speak the truth. If you have a headache and tell the doctor you have a stomachache, how can the doctor help? You must speak the truth. The truth will abolish fear.
If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.
Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.
That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves-before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine.
If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.
Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.
I tell young players who want to be coaches, who think they can put up with all the headaches and heartaches, can you live without it? If you can live without it, don't get in it.
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