proverbs

Insanity is hereditary, you get it from your children.

Two can live as cheaply as one, for half as long.

See a pin and pick it up and all day long you'll have a pin.

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.

You don't need to be insane to work here, but it helps

 

If at first you don`t succeed, then sod it.

 

Or, if at first you don't succeed, buy a toothless budgie.

 

If you go out to paint the town
sugarsoap it first

 

Anyone who can only think of only one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.

 

Very troo BM.

The person who never made a treacle tart never made anything.

Sorry that should read 'The person who never made a mistake never made anything'. Nope I prefer treacle tart.

 

People in glasshouses should bonk in the basement.

 

The best things in life are available in the Yellow Pages.

 

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.

A day without sunshine is like, well, night.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.

Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges.

Honk if you love peace and quiet.

Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so
popular?

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting
something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

You can't have everything, where would you put it?
(My husband quotes that one when he doesnââ?¬Ë?t want me to buy something)

Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the
world's population.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by
those who got there first.

A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter since nobody listens.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
until you hear them speak

(Been googling again - of course) :D

 

if you want to cross across a road cross across a crossing.

 

(I would dread reading that proverb, daitheplant, with my French "r" !!)


here is another one:

all the roads lead to Rome

(in Italian: tutte le strade portano a Roma)

 

and another one:


from a rose comes a thorn, from a thorn comes
a rose

 

from a rose comes beauty.

 

If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.