# Provide the Proverb (game) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 9, 2002, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055 "2002-08-09T00:12:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Simetra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/41 "2002-08-09T15:36:27Z")
Many hands do not a Hindu goddess make. A rolling stone \_\_\_\_\_\_\_. ---
**Author:** ![malaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@malaka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malaka)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/42 "2002-08-09T15:41:11Z")
A rolling stone…is Mick in a wheelchair. You’re damned if you do \_\_\_. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_alien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9d8465/32.png) [@Go\_alien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_alien)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/43 "2002-08-09T15:41:12Z")
There’s many a slip… when there’s ice on the pavement. Never kick a man\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/44 "2002-08-09T15:52:00Z")
You’re damned if you do go to hell. Never kick a man if there’s a sleeping dog handy. The way to a man’s heart\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_alien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9d8465/32.png) [@Go\_alien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_alien)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/45 "2002-08-09T15:52:20Z")
You’re damned if you do \_\_\_ and flooded out if you don’t. All the glitters \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ ---
**Author:** ![Re\_PT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Re\_PT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Re_PT)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/46 "2002-08-09T15:58:09Z")
“The way to a man’s heart is straight ahead, then it’s a left by the small house with the funny roof, or was it right? Anyway, then you hang a right by the flats and take a sharp left onto the small track…it’s somewhere down there I think.” “All the glitters don’t a Gary make.” Hell is… ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/47 "2002-08-09T15:58:31Z")
All that glitters…must be hidden when the taxman comes. A bird in the hand \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. ---
**Author:** ![Re\_PT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Re\_PT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Re_PT)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/48 "2002-08-09T16:08:08Z")
“The way to a man’s heart is straight ahead, then it’s a left by the small house with the funny roof, or was it right? Anyway, then you hang a right by the flats and take a sharp left onto the small track…it’s somewhere down there I think.” “All the glitters don’t a Gary make.” Hell is… ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/49 "2002-08-09T16:14:22Z")
A bird in the hand makes you a pervert. Hell is best followed by an “o”. If you can’t see the trees for the forest, \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. ---
**Author:** ![Re\_PT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Re\_PT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Re_PT)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/50 "2002-08-09T16:15:23Z")
Bloomin’ hamsters…if this reply times out and double posts then I’m quiting for the day… “A bird in the hand makes for a good Freudian slip.” Hell is… ---
**Author:** ![Re\_PT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Re\_PT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Re_PT)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/51 "2002-08-09T16:18:34Z")
“If you can’t see the trees for the forest the lumberjacks got there first.” There’s no time… ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/52 "2002-08-09T16:25:45Z")
There’s no time like lunchtime. A fool and his money… ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/53 "2002-08-09T16:31:39Z")
A fool and his money need to read my prospectus. There is no pillow so soft \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/54 "2002-08-09T16:41:41Z")
There is no pillow, so soft…rocks will have to do. A friend to all \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/55 "2002-08-09T17:00:44Z")
A friend to all probably likes tide and cheer as well. The world may be your oyster \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/56 "2002-08-09T18:20:02Z")
Hell is best followed by an “o.” - **lieu** , I love that proverb. May I steal it for my sig line? The world may be your oyster but your buttnuggets will never sing. Laugh and the world laughs with you… ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/57 "2002-08-09T18:36:02Z")
_Laugh and the world laughs with you…_ Cry and you’ll get on a talk show. “Hell hath no fury\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/58 "2002-08-09T18:38:57Z")
**Canthearya** , please be my guest. Laugh and the world laughs with you… snort and the world laughs at you. A house divided… ---
**Author:** ![TalkingHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TalkingHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TalkingHead)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/59 "2002-08-09T18:39:09Z")
Hell hath no Fury, because Plymouth stopped making them. Early to bed, early to rise, \_\_\_\_\_\_\_. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/60 "2002-08-09T18:42:43Z")
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