Proverbs?

Bhargav

Disciple
Some may be familiar:

--Always remember you're unique. Just like everyone else.

--Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

--If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

--A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

--Ambition is a poor excuse for not having the good sense to be lazy.

--Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.

--A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill your house 4 inches deep.

--Genetics explain why you look like your father and if you don't, why you
should.

--If you look like your passport photo you're not well enough to travel.

--How long a minute is depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on.

--If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacement anyway.

--Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places.

--Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and it bothers the pig.

--Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.

--A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.

--Reading while sunbathing makes you well red.

--Politicians and diapers should both be changed regularly, and for the same
reason.

--Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it very often.

--Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of cheques.

--No man has ever been shot while doing the dishes.

--The only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes.

--Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.

--Never mess up an apology with an excuse.

--Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

--Diplomacy is the art of saying ''good doggie'' while looking for a bigger stick.

--He who laughs last probably doesn't understand the joke.

--Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

--The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

--Quando omni flunkus moritati - when all else fails, play dead.

--Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

--All generalisations are dangerous, even this one.

--Failure is not falling down, it is not getting up again.

--For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.

--Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defence.

--If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

--If at first you don't succeed, give up, no use looking like a fool.

--If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

--If at first you don't succeed, look in the trash for the instructions.

--Never ever make absolute, unconditional statements.

--The beatings will continue until morale improves.

--What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

--You can only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

--When in doubt, poke it with a stick.

--The glass is either half full, half empty, or twice as big as it needs to be.
 
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