# Make your own proverbs

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000>\
**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:** 6\
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**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000/41 "2005-12-27T22:52:50Z")

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“A hard man is good to find.” Mae West

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Plus que je connais les hommes, plus que j’aime mon chat.

“It is better to remain quiet and appear a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.” Mark Twain

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**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000/42 "2005-12-27T22:57:23Z")

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That which does not kill only stuns.

The wages of sin is death, but once you take out for taxes, it just leaves kind of a tired feeling. (not original)

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**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000/43 "2005-12-27T22:57:53Z")

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Whoops, I was supposed to make them up. :smack:

Never mind.

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**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000/44 "2005-12-28T01:50:17Z")

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- Just because I’m an arrogant bastard doesnt’ mean I’m not better than you.
- Better to cast pearls before the swine than after it… because at least that way you won’t get pig crap on the pearls.

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**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000/45 "2005-12-28T04:40:23Z")

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> [@Civil Guy](#):
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> Oh, and I’ll be Baaaach… if I’m not Haydn.

Gone Chopin?

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**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-proverbs/337000/46 "2005-12-28T15:10:34Z")

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Two adages I’ve lived by:

Nothing is engraved in stone. (i.e. almost no decision can’t be fixed if it turns out to have been wrong)

What’s the worst that could happen? (i.e. when agonizing over a decision, look at the worst likely consequences to determine if it’s worth all the angst).

My former husband said many times that I had taught him these things and that they were of enormous value to him. YMMV.

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