How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
In the course of an attempt which initially ends in failure, one should always endeavour, endeavour further.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
And, in that spirit:
The paternal ancestors of those gathered here founded a novel governmental unit some 87 years ago.
Is that “Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers…”
Yep. Give that man a cigar!
Or, perhaps, a cheer:
That person (934spe?) ** is a cheerful and splendid comrade, something which no one shall gainsay!**
For he’s a jolly good fellow, which nobody can deny!
If you should chance to find yourself in the capital of the nation formerly headed by Silvio Berlusconi, conduct your affairs as though you were a denizen of said metropolis.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
Any give species of Aves invariably congregates with its own genus.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Mirth, when ejaculated subsequent to mirth, is superior either in quality or volume, depending.
Birds of a feather flock together
His synapsial firings are insufficient for his consciousness to distinguicsh between the excretions of the cloaca and a defunct product for the cosmetic rejuvenation of one’s footwear.
He who laughs last, laughs best
Mine still stands: His synapsial firings are insufficient for his consciousness to distinguicsh between the excretions of the cloaca and a defunct product for the cosmetic rejuvenation of one’s footwear.
He don’t know shit from Shinola.
It’s a situation reminiscent of permitting a vulpine mammal to be assigned the security detail regarding the roofed enclosure in which dwell female representatives of Gallus gallus and related species.
He’s to stupid to tell the difference between shit and shinola? I’m not really sure of the exact phrase.
It is a simile to a culinary implement accusing a culinary implement of absorbing all hues.
It’s like the fox watching the henhouse.
Are you in a familiar, if casual, relationship with agent Bauer? I don’t think you are.
You don’t know jack.
It’s like the pot calling the kettle black.
A small woody flowering shrub of the genus Rosa would create the same ambrosial olfactory impact even if its appelation were to undergo substantial revision.
A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet.
The attempt to prematurely end the pulmonary functions of one whole interger greater than one of an aviary species with a singular small granite chunk.
Trying to kill two birds with one stone.
Killing two birds with one stone.
It is inadvisable to micturate against pronounced oncoming air currents.
Don’t piss into the wind.
And it is furthermore inadvisable to antagonize the individual whose Christian name is James.
The infantile offspring has an over- whelming desire for two unused covering for their future locatomotive appendages.