Proverbs that should be changed to make them more literal

Technically, “two wrongs” is additive in nature. Negating a wrong is multiplicative. Thus, two wrongs don’t make a right, but negating a wrong apparently does.

And I heard it as two Wongs don’t make a Wright, but two Wrights make an airplane.

Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime, unless he lives in a desert, in which case it would be far better to just give him the fish.

except in the deep fryer or in a chemistry lab

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