# Come up with your very own old aphorism **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 4, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-your-very-own-old-aphorism/779003 "2017-02-04T20:06:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-your-very-own-old-aphorism/779003/1 "2017-02-04T20:06:34Z")
You never know, it may spread everywhere! BTW I strongly advise that if you do contribute one you google it first. Great minds think alike and it’s astonishing how many seemingly original thoughts have already been thunk, so to speak! Here’s my contribution. It didn’t turn up on a cursory google but do let me know if I missed it and it’s already out there. > [@](#): > > On being asked if he would marry again **aldiboronti** said long ago, Marriage is a mistake a wise man makes only once and a very wise man not at all. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-your-very-own-old-aphorism/779003/2 "2017-02-04T20:38:44Z")
“The Devil whispers in dog’s ears” -_Little Lumpy’s Almanac_ ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-your-very-own-old-aphorism/779003/3 "2017-02-04T20:42:19Z")
As easy as a rich man sticking a needle in the eye of a camel. _Proverbs_ according to **running coach** ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-your-very-own-old-aphorism/779003/4 "2017-02-04T21:03:46Z")
You’ve buttered your bread-- now you have to lie in it. Thelma’s Words to Live by. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-your-very-own-old-aphorism/779003/5 "2017-02-04T21:13:14Z")
If you know what you’re doing, it’s not an adventure. Ethilrist’s Law ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-your-very-own-old-aphorism/779003/6 "2017-02-04T22:23:20Z")
Novelty Bobbles law of judicious swearing…always have a cunt up your sleeve ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-your-very-own-old-aphorism/779003/7 "2017-02-04T23:58:25Z")
Quoted by **aldiboronti** : On being asked if he would marry again **aldiboronti** said long ago, Marriage is a mistake a wise man makes only once and a very wise man not at all. The corollary (coronary?) [courtesy National Lampoon]: A wise man marries his second wife first. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-your-very-own-old-aphorism/779003/8 "2017-02-05T02:10:45Z")
See a pin and pick it up and all day you’ll have … a pin. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-your-very-own-old-aphorism/779003/9 "2017-02-05T02:17:51Z")
A penny saved is hardly worth the effort. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-your-very-own-old-aphorism/779003/10 "2017-02-05T03:54:29Z")
You’re always in trouble if you have to hope someone wasn’t stupid. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-your-very-own-old-aphorism/779003/11 "2017-02-05T04:21:10Z")
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but three rights make a left. -_The Fable of Buster Brown_ ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-your-very-own-old-aphorism/779003/12 "2017-02-05T05:14:07Z")
> [@glee](#): > > See a pin and pick it up and all day you’ll have … a pin. Ah, a fellow pin-head. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-your-very-own-old-aphorism/779003/13 "2017-02-05T12:23:27Z")
> [@glee](#): > > See a pin and pick it up and all day you’ll have … a pin. > [@Kron](#): > > Ah, a fellow pin-head. Or a chess player. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-your-very-own-old-aphorism/779003/14 "2017-02-05T17:38:56Z")
Chronos’ Maxim: The smaller the set of people who will get a joke, the funnier it will be to those who do get it. Corollary: The funniest jokes are always inside jokes. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-your-very-own-old-aphorism/779003/15 "2017-02-05T17:42:45Z")
Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-your-very-own-old-aphorism/779003/16 "2017-02-06T08:39:23Z")
> [@glee](#): > > See a pin and pick it up and all day you’ll have … a pin. I first heard this on I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue c. 20 years ago. Can’t remember who it was - probably Graeme Garden. Even then it may not have been original. It is a good one though, I hope pointing this out doesn’t leave you feeling too… deflated :). ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-your-very-own-old-aphorism/779003/17 "2017-02-06T13:31:01Z")
A rolling stone gathers no moss, but if you really need a clean stone, you can scrape off the moss without rolling it. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-your-very-own-old-aphorism/779003/18 "2017-02-06T13:50:33Z")
When presenting a particularly scrumptious dinner course, I like to wink to the person I’m serving and say, “And if this stays down, there’s plenty more”. Maybe more of a non sequitur than an aphorism, though. ---
**Author:** ![Stana\_Claus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stana_claus/32/13874_2.png) [@Stana\_Claus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stana_Claus)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-your-very-own-old-aphorism/779003/19 "2017-02-06T14:54:08Z")
There is no problem so bad that it cannot be made worse through brute force and ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-your-very-own-old-aphorism/779003/20 "2017-02-06T15:20:47Z")
To control the classroom, control yourself. ~DSYoungEsq, “The Tao of Teaching” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-your-very-own-old-aphorism/779003.md?page=2)