# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/81 "2002-08-10T20:32:30Z")
Posted on behalf of **Washte** : Birds of a feather make good dusters. Great minds \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2002, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/82 "2002-08-11T04:05:42Z")
Great, minds are falling from the sky and splattering on the pavement on my day off. He who sows wind \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ ---
**Author:** ![peasea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc79bd/32.png) [@peasea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peasea)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2002, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/83 "2002-08-11T04:29:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by matt\_mcl \* > \*\*Great, minds are falling from the sky and splattering on the pavement on my day off. > \*\* Thank you, **matt** , for that beautiful bit of surrealism. 🙂 It took me a full ten seconds to recover. He who sows wind must take care he does not break it. Two heads are\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ ---
**Author:** ![wyldelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@wyldelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wyldelf)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2002, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/84 "2002-08-11T04:41:28Z")
Two heads are… gonna hurt like hell if you have a hangover “I love you not because of who you are \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_” ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2002, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/85 "2002-08-11T06:08:10Z")
I love you not because of who you are, but because you’ve got so damn much money that my parents are throwing me at you. “A bad workman \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_” ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2002, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/86 "2002-08-11T06:26:56Z")
…makes a good speed bump. “There’s a thin line between\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_” ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2002, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/87 "2002-08-12T03:50:25Z")
There’s a thin line between…Quebec and New Brunswick. Cast not your pearls… ---
**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 12, 2002, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/88 "2002-08-12T07:42:47Z")
Cast not your pearls… before casting on, otherwise your knitting will be ruined. And continuing the almost like a proverb theme: Oh what tangled webs we weave… ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2002, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/89 "2002-08-12T08:29:38Z")
Oh what tangled webs we weave when we opt for hair extensions! Change the name but not the letter\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ ---
**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 12, 2002, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/90 "2002-08-12T10:00:51Z")
Change the name but not the letterhead when we hire a new employee. Ours is not to reason why\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ ---
**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 12, 2002, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/91 "2002-08-12T10:10:07Z")
Ours is not to reason why\_\_\_\_ that’s why we employed Andersens, said Bernie Ebbers. An elephant never… ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2002, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/92 "2002-08-12T10:37:00Z")
An elephant never puts the toilet seat down. To err is human, \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ ---
**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 12, 2002, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/93 "2002-08-12T10:47:57Z")
To err is human, to um is hesitation. Every cloud\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ ---
**Author:** ![peasea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc79bd/32.png) [@peasea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peasea)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2002, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/94 "2002-08-12T12:07:37Z")
Every cloud is made of millions of particles of water, all suspended in the air forming a translucent mass that occasionly accumulates so much water, precipitation occurs. There is no honor\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ ---
**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 12, 2002, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/95 "2002-08-12T12:12:41Z")
There is no honorific for men specifying that they are single. He who laughs last\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ ---
**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 12, 2002, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/96 "2002-08-12T12:14:35Z")
He who laughs last\_\_\_\_ takes longest to get the joke. The road to Hell… ---
**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 12, 2002, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/97 "2002-08-12T12:22:31Z")
The road to Hell… has been closed for major resurfacing, police advise commuters to travel via purgatory. There is no such thing as a free\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2002, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/98 "2002-08-12T16:13:54Z")
There is no such thing as a freemason, only Masonics and Shriners. Do what you love and love what you’re doing… ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2002, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/99 "2002-08-12T16:23:37Z")
Do what you love and love what you’re doing… unless that’s tearing kittens limb from limb. Better to light one candle \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ ---
**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 12, 2002, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055/100 "2002-08-12T17:20:09Z")
Better to light one candle, than to attempt to juggle chainsaws in the dark. Better to have loved and lost\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/provide-the-proverb-game/123055.md?page=6)