# Make your own proverbs **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 23, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000 "2005-12-23T19:20:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000/21 "2005-12-24T06:03:24Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I thought of "a bird in the hand is worth… whatever bird shit in your hand is worth. Yours is better. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000/22 "2005-12-24T06:12:26Z")
The unlived life is not worth examining. ---
**Author:** ![someone447](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@someone447](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/someone447)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000/23 "2005-12-24T06:32:33Z")
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000/24 "2005-12-24T08:07:34Z")
No matter how cool you are today, you’re still just going to end up as a stodgy, befuddled old person in a few decades. If you live that long. ---
**Author:** ![ms.deanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@ms.deanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ms.deanna)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000/25 "2005-12-24T15:00:54Z")
I have 2 1. Don’t start no shit, there won’t be no shit. 2. The apple don’t fall too far from the " bitch". ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000/26 "2005-12-24T23:58:07Z")
What doesn’t kill me, makes me older. If I knew yesterday what I know today, I still wouldn’t know what I’ll know tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2005, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000/27 "2005-12-25T00:01:22Z")
Oh, and I’ll be Baaaach… if I’m not Haydn. I thought of that one all by myself. Well, I’ve never heard anyone else use it. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000/28 "2005-12-25T00:30:00Z")
> [@Civil Guy](#): > > Oh, and I’ll be Baaaach… if I’m not Haydn. > > I thought of that one all by myself. Well, I’ve never heard anyone else use it. I’m Offenbach sooner than you’d expect. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2005, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000/29 "2005-12-25T00:37:21Z")
> [@Satchmo](#): > > Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Probably in summer school. Those who remember the past are doomed to repeat it…to anyone who’ll listen. ---
**Author:** ![bizzwire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@bizzwire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizzwire)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2005, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000/30 "2005-12-25T00:38:42Z")
“Unsolicited advice is worth its weight in gold.” ---
**Author:** ![spingears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2005, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000/31 "2005-12-25T04:16:13Z")
He who crosses the bridge before he comes to it pays toll twice! ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2005, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000/32 "2005-12-25T23:42:57Z")
Patting your pocket for the keys after you hear the lock click is wasted motion. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000/33 "2005-12-26T01:40:22Z")
Work smarter, not harder. And if that’s too much, contract it out to poor mexicans. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000/34 "2005-12-26T01:42:41Z")
The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000/35 "2005-12-26T02:05:05Z")
> [@Cranky Hermit](#): > > The quickest way to a man’s heart is through his chest with sharp knife… I always say the quickest way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, then up through the alimentary canal. > [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > The sqeaky wheel gets the grease… because the obedient wheels got all the bacon. The squeaky wheel gets greased. If it continues to squeak, it gets discarded and replaced. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000/36 "2005-12-26T02:06:14Z")
I don’t know. I have an idea for a proverb, but I don’t know what. It’s something along the lines of “No TV and no beer make Homer” something something. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000/37 "2005-12-26T09:35:51Z")
I was going to say “Anything that’s worth dying for is worth killing for,” but it looks like some Limey beat me to it. ---
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000/38 "2005-12-26T17:01:32Z")
Courtesy of Hunter S. Thompson: “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Or possibly the last. I wept because I had no eyes until I saw a man with no head. We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal (except if they’re gay, black, or women.) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000/39 "2005-12-26T17:05:53Z")
When you have nothing, anything is something. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000/40 "2005-12-27T00:43:26Z")
I have a bumper sticker on my car that says “do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.” That is my favorite of all proverbs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000.md?page=3)