# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/141 "2013-10-16T05:22:20Z")
It’ll be in the last place you look, cause it’d be stupid to keep looking for something you’ve found. ---
**Author:** ![Haldurson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/51bf81/32.png) [@Haldurson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haldurson)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/142 "2013-10-16T08:15:28Z")
Fools rush in when Angels fail to bunt. Time and tide wait for the moon to be in the right place. ---
**Author:** ![Zyanthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Zyanthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyanthia)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/143 "2013-10-16T16:42:24Z")
The quickest way to a man’s heart is through his trousers. ---
**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 16, 2013, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/144 "2013-10-16T16:59:21Z")
Time flies like a banana. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/145 "2013-10-16T17:22:57Z")
Let them eat cake, but hide the ice cream so we don’t have to share. ---
**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 16, 2013, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/146 "2013-10-16T17:28:00Z")
It’s a wise child that knows the results of the paternity test. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/147 "2013-10-16T17:36:56Z")
You can’t straighten a snake by pulling it through a straw. ---
**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 16, 2013, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/148 "2013-10-16T17:40:29Z")
No one ever expects the Spanish Influenza! ---
**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 16, 2013, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/149 "2013-10-16T17:44:59Z")
It’s pretty much impossible to get a camel through a needle’s eye, so let’s forget about it, hmm? ---
**Author:** ![tiescore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@tiescore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiescore)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/150 "2013-10-17T19:14:57Z")
Behind every great man is a nagging mother in law. If at first you don’t succeed, circumvent. No great plan survives first contact with accounting. That which does not kill us, missed. I Came, I Saw, I Reconsidered Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. - Milton Friedman Bacon isn’t everything, its the only thing! Life is like a box of chocolates, its overpriced for what you get ---
**Author:** ![tiescore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@tiescore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiescore)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/151 "2013-10-17T19:19:40Z")
The truth will set you free, unless the truth is you really did committed that murder, then its gonna land your butt in prision. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/152 "2013-10-17T23:10:12Z")
“A watched boil never pops.” - one of the Usual Gang of Idiots in MAD. ---
**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 18, 2013, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/153 "2013-10-18T11:19:33Z")
Ask a stupid question, you’ll get patronized senseless. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2013, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/154 "2013-10-18T11:47:18Z")
If you got 'em,…show 'em to me! Never do anything on Friday that can be done next week by someone else. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2013, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/155 "2013-10-18T11:53:08Z")
> [@MonkeyMensch](#): > > People who live in glass houses shouldn’t. People who live in glass houses… change clothes in basement! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2013, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/156 "2013-10-18T14:18:38Z")
Tomorrow is the last day of the first part of your life. ---
**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 18, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/157 "2013-10-18T14:37:03Z")
9 out of 10 dentists prefer CBS. ---
**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 18, 2013, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/158 "2013-10-18T15:13:21Z")
If you build a better mouse trap opportunity will beat a dead horse just once at your door. Edit: I suppose this implies opportunity is a mouse. ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2013, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/159 "2013-10-19T10:19:28Z")
If at first you don’t succeed, it’s a very gray area as to the number of additional tries you get before someone decides you’ve met the definition for insanity. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 9 out of 10 dentists prefer CBS. 4 out of 5 dentists prefer the ones that sob quietly. ---
**Author:** ![kcaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@kcaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kcaj)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2013, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subvert-a-saying/670636/160 "2013-10-19T21:03:47Z")
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