Subject: Proverbs (Page 8)

Better late than… pregnant.

The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.

One of life’s greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn’t good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.

If your time ain’t come, not even a doctor can kill you.

You may laugh at a friend’s roof; don’t laugh at his sleeping accomodation.

You can catch more flies with honey than you can with vinegar, but either way you’ve got flies.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

The church is near, but the road is icy; the bar is far away, but I will walk carefully.

A fool and his money are soon partying.

God is good, but never dance in a small boat.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

There’s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

People with narrow minds usually have broad tongues.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Cutting off a mule's ears doesn't make it a horse.

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

It is better to have an ugly wife for one’s self than a beautiful wife for others.

Where there are no swamps there are no frogs.

Always yield to temptation, because it may not pass your way again.

If the baby is happy, don’t try to make it happier.

If the shoe fits, get another one just like it.