Dick's Ditties

<background> Dick is the owner of a business in my town. Every week he has a small ad in the local paper with these quips. Let me know if there’s enough interest to continue this each week. Here’s this week’s list. Enjoy… </background>
Government programs have three things in common - a beginning, a muddle, and no end.

Don’t be too critical of you child’s spelling, unless you are sure all your old school papers have beend destroyed.

Smart folks learn by other’s mistakes. Fools learn by their own.

A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead.

If a bear shits in the woods, and there’s no one there to smell it… Does it still stink?

What’s the sound of one hand clapping, is it the sound a tree makes when it falls in the forest when no one is around.

If I’m into sadism, bestiality and necrophilia, am I flogging a dead horse?