Here are the rules: You take an aphorism (sp, no time to look it up), and disprove it. Extra credit points if you do so in the form of another aphorism.
Example: “There are no atheists in a foxhole.”
Counter: “There are no Christians in a brothel, and there are a damn sight more brothels than foxholes.”
Who’s next?
Example: Look before you leap.
Counter: He who hesitates is lost.
Example: That which does not kill you, makes you stronger.
Counter: http://www.theserialcaller.co.uk/files/www.TheSerialCaller.com_BROWN_SYRUP.mp3
I might not be getting this game.
Example: Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Counter: Out of sight, out of mind.
Example: A penny saved is a penny earned.
Counter: The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes
Time and tide wait for no man
Counter: Haste makes waste
“Many Hands make light work.”
Counter: “Too many cooks spoil the broth.”
“Good things come to those who wait.”
Counter: “The early bird gets the worm.”
“The grass is always greener on the other side”
Counter: There’s no place like home.
There’s no smoke without fire.
Don’t judge a book by its cover.
“Great Minds Think Alike”
Counter: “Fools seldom differ”
“You can’t go home again.”
Counter: Home is where, when you go there, they have to take you in.
Or, dwc1970’s could be…
“Good things come to those who wait.”
“Time and tide wait for no man.”