# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![DirtyHippy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtyhippy/32/107_2.png) [@DirtyHippy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirtyHippy)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/21 "2011-11-26T13:24:09Z")
The squeaky wheel gets replaced. ---
**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, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/22 "2011-11-26T15:17:20Z")
Those who can, do; those who can’t leech. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/23 "2011-11-27T07:35:21Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > We’ll burn that bridge when we come to it. > \ I usually go with, “We’ll jump off that bridge when we get to it.” 🙂 Another personal favourite - “That’s how the cookie bounces.” ---
**Author:** ![Teufelblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@Teufelblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teufelblitz)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/24 "2011-11-27T08:23:30Z")
My favorite is from Groucho: Time flies like an arrow, and fruit flies like a banana. ---
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/25 "2011-11-27T09:18:16Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > It’s not fun and games unless someone loses and eye. It’s all fun and eyes until someone loses a game. It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye - then it’s fun and games in the dark. ---
**Author:** ![Teufelblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@Teufelblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teufelblitz)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/26 "2011-11-27T09:23:41Z")
Even a stopped clock finds an acorn once in a while. ---
**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 27, 2011, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/27 "2011-11-27T11:05:15Z")
_In the land of the blind, there is only one type of dating, and upturned rakes are particularly hazardous._ ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/28 "2011-11-27T11:46:43Z")
It’s not the heat; it’s the stupidity. I pitied myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I took his shoes. (I can’t claim credit for this one, though I don’t remember where I heard it.) An apple a day really doesn’t make that much difference in your overall health, unless you also cut out the junk food, quit eating so much cholesterol, and get some exercise for once, you fat pig. A rolling stone gathers no moths. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–I took the one less traveled by. It made no difference whatsoever. I was still late. Traffic was terrible. ---
**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 27, 2011, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/29 "2011-11-27T19:03:23Z")
> [@Scribble](#): > > I pitied myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I took his shoes. (I can’t claim credit for this one, though I don’t remember where I heard it.) Good one. Reminds me of my High School teacher. He wasn’t cut out for the career, and was spectacularly uncomfortable addressing a room full of teenagers. One morning he tried to relate the “no shoes” homily, and I’ll never forget his exact words: (fidgeting nervously) “I felt sorry for myself because I didn’t have any shoes, but then I saw a guy walking down the street without any legs.” Hilarity ensued. . ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/30 "2011-11-27T19:05:20Z")
> [@Teufelblitz](#): > > My favorite is from Groucho: Time flies like an arrow, and fruit flies like a banana. Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/31 "2011-11-27T19:20:15Z")
Give a redneck a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a redneck to fish and he’ll bankrupt the family buying shit at the Bass Pro shop. ---
**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 27, 2011, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/32 "2011-11-27T21:12:33Z")
How about: I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. And then I laughed (too dark?) One that I had to amend only recently (which explains it’s unwieldiliness): No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Of course, they’ll still think you’re inferior, and they can still exercise whatever imbalance of power over you that raised the issue in the first place, but by golly they can’t make you feel inferior. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/33 "2011-11-28T21:18:50Z")
A bird in the hand is gonna poop on you. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/34 "2011-11-28T23:12:14Z")
Time flies when you’re in a coma. Give me immortality or give me death! ([Firesign Theatre](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_Me_Immortality_or_Give_Me_Death)) An old one: Smoke, and the world smokes with you; swear off, and you smoke alone. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/35 "2011-11-28T23:49:33Z")
A stopped clock is right 24 times per day, somewhere in the world. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/36 "2011-11-29T01:13:35Z")
A bird in the hand is always greener than the grass under the other guy’s bushes. From one of the most subversive films of all time, _[North](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_(film))_. ---
**Author:** ![SeaCanary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@SeaCanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaCanary)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/37 "2011-11-29T01:24:58Z")
Idle devils make handy workers. > [@Lasciel](#): > > You made your bed, now eat it, too. You’ve buttered your bread, now you can lie in it. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/38 "2011-11-29T01:37:41Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > , , , If there was a God, it would be necessary to circumvent him. (Edward Abbey) . . . I think I’m in love with that one. “A think worth doing is worth doing badly.” I believe this to be true for three reasons. In fact I have a seven minute speech about it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/39 "2011-11-29T04:18:00Z")
[First graders](http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~evans/stuff/kids_lines.html) are supposedly pretty good at this. “If you lie down with dogs, you’ll stink in the morning.” ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978/40 "2011-11-29T05:37:12Z")
A straight line only exists to a first approximation. A bird in the hand is either dead or dying. The grass is always greener near improperly-stored explosives. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/603978.md?page=3)