# Subvert a Saying **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 24, 2011, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978 "2011-11-24T16:10:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/1 "2011-11-24T16:10:05Z")
I expect this has probably been done before, but what the hell. \*You can’t teach an old dog Cheap Trick. Those who live in glass houses… are probably exhibitionists. Laugh, and the world laughs with you… fart, and a percentage of it scatters. A penny saved… will barely affect your financial outlook. Fools rush in… the prudent have a quiet smoke outside and wait for them to trigger all the traps. Good fences make… an emergency zombie barrier.\* ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/2 "2011-11-24T17:18:33Z")
I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous. Two wrongs don’t make a right, but three lefts do. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/3 "2011-11-24T17:39:50Z")
Live and don’t learn - alright I stole that one. ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/4 "2011-11-24T17:52:32Z")
You made your bed, now eat it, too. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/5 "2011-11-24T17:59:51Z")
Maybe only partly in the spirit. I’ve used this as my FB thanksgiving post: “be thankful that the pilgrims died on the cross for your right to eat too much and OD on football today” ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/6 "2011-11-24T18:03:29Z")
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism If it ain’t broken, fix it until it is. If there was a God, it would be necessary to circumvent him. (Edward Abbey) Believing is Seeing. Time wounds all heels. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/7 "2011-11-24T18:04:21Z")
\*Revenge is a dish… vengeance is a teapot. Loose lips… cannot smoke a pipe effectively. Beggars can’t… buy speedboats on credit. Cut off your nose to… increase the value of your paintings.\* ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/8 "2011-11-24T18:06:52Z")
We’ll burn that bridge when we come to it. Chiggers can’t be boozers. (B. Kliban) If wishes were horses, riders would beg. FAA motto: ‘We’re not happy until you’re unhappy.’ ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/9 "2011-11-24T18:38:34Z")
A cat’s home is his mantle. Don’t put all your legs in one casket. A pit bull a day keeps the dachshund away. Good things come to those who mate. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/10 "2011-11-25T18:39:07Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > A cat’s home is his mantle. Best one so far. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/11 "2011-11-25T22:23:57Z")
My favorite: _Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows._ ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/12 "2011-11-25T22:40:42Z")
Good deeds never go unpunished. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/13 "2011-11-25T23:18:04Z")
I have not yet begun to give up the ship! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/14 "2011-11-26T00:05:40Z")
Hurry up! I’ve got places to go & people to kill. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/15 "2011-11-26T00:07:05Z")
Good fences don’t let the neighbors see you burying the bodies. Loose lips fling spit. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/16 "2011-11-26T00:14:27Z")
Not mine, but still a favorite: “As the Good Book says - do unto others as they hath done unto you” -Arthur Daley ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/17 "2011-11-26T00:30:29Z")
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king… of an incredibly fucked up place. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/18 "2011-11-26T00:58:49Z")
One I use from time to time: Some times the light at the end of the tunnel is a speeding train coming your way. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/19 "2011-11-26T11:21:46Z")
It’s not fun and games unless someone loses and eye. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/20 "2011-11-26T12:32:12Z")
A woman is only a woman but a good cigar makes her a joke. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978.md?page=2)