# Sayings you've found to be true. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 7, 2008, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493 "2008-09-07T15:52:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Incensed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Incensed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incensed)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/21 "2008-09-07T23:38:53Z")
**Casting pearls to swine/pearls before swine** …Apparently there really are people who do not/cannot appreciate degrees of quality, and who are just as satisfied with entry level crap as with something finer. **You can’t go home again** …I left my home of 24 years, and came back. The place was no different, but I was. So, in theory, the You (me) that left never made it back home, which is sort of the opposite meaning of how I’d previously interpreted the saying. (I had thought the place changed.) ---
**Author:** ![Bin-Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@Bin-Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bin-Gay)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/22 "2008-09-07T23:54:25Z")
Waste not, want not. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. ---
**Author:** ![Skylark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Skylark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skylark)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/23 "2008-09-08T00:11:58Z")
Sacrifice in March, corn have plenty starch. ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/24 "2008-09-08T00:40:07Z")
Wherever you go, there you are. (You can’t outrun your problems). I don’t get **Skylark** ’s, what’s the explanation for it? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/25 "2008-09-08T00:59:46Z")
> [@iampunha](#): > > Think/preview twice, post once. > > Back in the days before mere mortals could edit, this was your only way to avoid having a broken quote tag or two mess everything up spectacularly. Well, passing mods were sometimes willing to fix particularly ugly mistakes. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/26 "2008-09-08T01:11:48Z")
Liquor before beer, never fear. Beer before liquor, never sicker. Only because when I’m drunk, I’m way too stupid to know when to stop, and it’s much harder to brutally overindulge on beer. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/27 "2008-09-08T01:50:23Z")
You can’t cheat an honest man. Never pass up an opportunity to pee. ---
**Author:** ![Elysium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@Elysium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysium)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/28 "2008-09-08T02:19:26Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Practice makes perfect. > > Actually, I have found that to NOT be true. > > Practice makes habit. Perfect practice makes perfect. So true, my dad uses a similar saying: “Practice makes permanent.” He is a pretty smart guy, and this advice proved useful for everything from soccer to math class. A bad habit is hard to break, make sure you correct mistakes early. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/29 "2008-09-08T02:34:42Z")
You can’t buy class. Live each day as though it is your last, because one of these days, you’ll be right. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/30 "2008-09-08T03:27:44Z")
When you are 20 you want to change the world, when you are 40 you realise the world has changed you ! ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/31 "2008-09-08T03:35:36Z")
Never slap a man who’s chewing tobacco. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2008, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/32 "2008-09-08T03:40:30Z")
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/33 "2008-09-08T04:16:02Z")
We see not what is, but what we are. Love your neighbor as yourself (unless you hate yourself) 2nd vote for pearls unto swine. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/34 "2008-09-08T04:26:56Z")
> [@Rysto](#): > > Liquor before beer, never fear. > Beer before liquor, never sicker. > > Only because when I’m drunk, I’m way too stupid to know when to stop, and it’s much harder to brutally overindulge on beer. OMG…of all the sayings out there…this one is so totally true. I was coming in to this just to post this. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/35 "2008-09-08T04:37:10Z")
Mine is “every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end,” which I learned from the song “Closing Time” by Semisonic. I’ve found, from my own personal experience, that it’s absolutely true, with the exception of the big bang.🆒 ---
**Author:** ![harmswai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/59ef9b/32.png) [@harmswai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmswai)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/36 "2008-09-08T04:37:57Z")
“If you are looking for something wrong, you’re sure to find it.”:eek: " Trust your gut, your heart will deceive you."😕 and the one that was pounded into my ears years several years ago, but now seems to have been forgotten by the one that said it to me, “A half-truth is still a lie.”:dubious: (ok, maybe the smilies are a bit much, but they’re fun) ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/37 "2008-09-08T05:15:04Z")
“I’ve known a great many troubles in my life, most of which never happened.” -Mark Twain ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/38 "2008-09-08T11:13:55Z")
Argue for your limitations and sure enough their yours. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/39 "2008-09-08T12:02:17Z")
> [@Civil\_Guy](#): > > “I’ve known a great many troubles in my life, most of which never happened.” > -Mark Twain I like this one. It reminds me of our $100K+ a year whiner friend who is just never. fucking. happy with anything in his life. SHADDUP already. Two wrongs don’t make a right. This was one of my mom’s favorites. ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/40 "2008-09-08T13:32:04Z")
That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. Always been true for me, anyway. In my younger days I went through a number of very painful experiences, and there were times when I didn’t think I could carry on. But I did, and now it’s hard to imagine the experience that could break me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493.md?page=3)