# Subvert a Saying **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 7, 2013, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636 "2013-10-07T23:57:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![FallFast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba9def/32.png) [@FallFast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallFast)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/121 "2013-10-14T21:56:54Z")
Can’t live with them, can’t shoot them. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/122 "2013-10-15T14:19:17Z")
A word to the wise is unnecessary. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/123 "2013-10-15T14:23:22Z")
A watched pot will boil. But it seems longer if you watch. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/124 "2013-10-15T14:23:34Z")
In numbers there is quantity. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/125 "2013-10-15T14:26:51Z")
Many hands make lighthouses. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/126 "2013-10-15T16:28:21Z")
The rich are different from the rest of us … they have more money. (Stole this one from George Bernard Shaw). ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/127 "2013-10-15T16:49:38Z")
God never gives you more than you can handle, which is why no one ever has a nervous breakdown or commits suicide. ---
**Author:** ![EMCEE\_98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5ac83/32.png) [@EMCEE\_98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EMCEE_98)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/128 "2013-10-15T17:50:23Z")
Fool me once, shame on…shame on you. Fool me…you can’t get fooled again. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/129 "2013-10-15T17:53:52Z")
Life is just a bowl of cherry bombs. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/130 "2013-10-15T19:27:05Z")
If life gives you lemons, it better also give you water and sugar or that’ll be some shitty lemonade. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/131 "2013-10-15T19:31:29Z")
The dog that bites you may have its reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/132 "2013-10-15T19:34:16Z")
Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like Cleveland. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/133 "2013-10-15T19:48:43Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > A load of bread, a jug of wine, and a thousand dollars. Or as Tommy Smothers put it on a live network broadcast (before CBS famously cancelled their show)… “A loaf of bread, beneath the bough, a jug of wine, and a piece of Thou.” ---
**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:** [October 15, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/134 "2013-10-15T20:01:25Z")
Some of my favorites: - If at first you don’t succeed, get a bigger hammer. - When all else fails, do it right. - Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. - If it ain’t broke, fix it ‘til it is. - The truth shall set you free, but it might make you miserable at first. - Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make unhappiness a lot more pleasant. - If there was a God, it would be necessary to circumvent him. (Edward Abbey) - Time wounds all heels. (Groucho Marx, I think) - Believing is Seeing. - He who laughs, lasts. - Don’t believe everything you think. And a personal classic, uttered in 1965 by my high school history teacher: “I cried because I didn’t have shoes, but then I saw a guy walking down the street without any legs.” ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/135 "2013-10-15T20:05:20Z")
A penny saved isn’t worth the trouble to pick it up. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/136 "2013-10-15T20:08:09Z")
No mayonnaise in Ireland. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/137 "2013-10-15T20:22:00Z")
Erin Go Baaah! ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/138 "2013-10-15T23:02:27Z")
Ghoti out of water. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/139 "2013-10-15T23:07:26Z")
To be or not to be: that’s not a question. It’s not even a sentence. A picture is worth $.09 at Walgreens. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/140 "2013-10-15T23:11:37Z")
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