# Failed maxims **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 20, 2003, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/failed-maxims/162703 "2003-03-20T02:27:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/failed-maxims/162703/21 "2003-03-20T20:52:33Z")
A bird in the hand will probably poop on you. Take time to smell the flowers, but watch out for the bees! A penny saved is not enough to be worth the effort. While a fool and his money are soon parted, how the fool got money in the first place is the real question. Love thy neighbor, especially if she’s a real hottie. If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it the observer is probably deaf. Love must be blind; it’s never found me. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/failed-maxims/162703/22 "2003-03-20T21:35:53Z")
It’s not the winning that matters; it’s the taking part. Or so it seems ☹ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/failed-maxims/162703/23 "2003-03-20T22:34:06Z")
Where Forth factors, Lisp defuns. Send not to know what type the malloc allocates, for it casts to void \*. DUP SWAP, DUP OVER ROLL. ( a – aaa ) Forty-six postmodern beatniks die every time Bruce Springsteen sings about his lower-middle-class life of decadent opulence. A wonderbra is probably not for chopping into lines and snorting. Take the mystery out of a train wreck. Dance on registers, shame on you; fandango on core, shame on lint. ---
**Author:** ![radar\_ralf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@radar\_ralf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/radar_ralf)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/failed-maxims/162703/24 "2003-03-21T00:28:57Z")
oh, that kind of maxim… i thought you were talking about the machine gun… ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/failed-maxims/162703/25 "2003-03-21T00:53:30Z")
One swallow does not a summer romance make. ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/failed-maxims/162703/26 "2003-03-21T05:16:33Z")
Listen not to the flowers, they’re trying to get you killed. There is no sound greater than the belch of a contented child. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, or before that jerk Kane gets to them. A wounded friend is a buffet waiting to happen. If tide be high and moon be full, then never go to a tractor pull. ---
**Author:** ![Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satisfying_Andy_Licious)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/failed-maxims/162703/27 "2003-03-21T06:38:49Z")
Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/failed-maxims/162703.md?page=1)