Post a axiom, idiom, or proverb. One at a time, please!


I'll start: You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink!

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush!

A stitch in time, saves nine.

Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.

"Brevity is the soul of lingerie." Dorothy Parker

Every dog has it's day

If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all!

“Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.” Albert Einstein

Don't put off till tomorrow what you can do today!

''Never buy anything that you might be able to find for free in a garbage dump.'' Horace Schemer

A penny saved is a penny earned!

"Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do!" - me, while learning how to drive many years ago.

When it rains it pours

Birds of a feather, flock together.

"Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple." Woody Guthrie

a fish in the hand is a slippery, icky mess.

There's always two sides to every story.

"Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen." Woody Guthrie

It is always darkest just before dawn!

You can lead a horse to water, but if you try do it with a donkey he will kick you in the neck!

Two wrongs don't make a right

Married in black and you'll wish you were back

A bush in your hand can make it sticky enough to hold on to that bird you had earlier.

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

"Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost." James Thurber

You can't judge a book by it's cover

An apple a day, keeps the Doctor away.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

A day late and a dollar short.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you

You can't bounce a meatball.

It's better to give than receive

That's the way the ball bounces

The love of money is the root of all evil

the buck stops here

Pretty IS, as pretty DOES.

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it." W.C. Fields

My favorite and oh so true!

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans- John Lennon

Don't put all your eggs in one basket !

"Success is 1% inspiration, 98% perspiration and 2% attention to detail.” Phil Dunphy

Least said, soonest mended

A fool and his money are soon parted

Monkey see, Monkey do.

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."

Strike while the iron is hot!

the more things change
the more they stay the same

Whatever will be . . will be.

Ignorance is bliss

"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else." Will Rogers

What goes around comes around

Time waits for no one.

Cheaters never win

That boy hain't got enough sense to pound sand down a rathole

nothing is sure but death and taxes

Fools rush in
Where angels fear to tread

Mind your p's and q's.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth

Birds of a feather flock together

Better safe than sorry.

"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere." Groucho Marx

He who laughs last laughs best

The only thing worse than old age is the alternative

Harsh Reality is better than false hope.

Between a rock and a hard place.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Enough is as good as a feast

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

Beggers can't be choosey.

"It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices."

When in doubt, throw it out. (In reference to food)

"No matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Banzai

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw bread crumbs.


That was mine. :D

Here today, gone tomorrow

"You know what they say —*you can lead a herring to water, but you have to walk really fast or he'll die." Rose Nylund

"Beware of people who dislike cats." -- Irish proverb