Proverbs

Loose lips sink ships. or when it rains, it pours. He who has the gold makes the rules.
Self trust is the first secret of success. Variant: A bird in the hand makes it hard to blow your nose. Trouble shared is trouble halved.
The teacher has not taught, until the student has learned. -Winnie Parkerson, Nacogdoches County, TX Possible Interpretation: Never give up.
Winners never cheat and cheaters never win. When the cat's away, the mice will play. Red to black, venom lack. Red to yellow kills a fellow.
Interpretation: A person who is active will not grow stale. It's a cracked pitcher that goes longest to the well. Salvage Something From Every Setback. - R Sankaranarayanan A fox smells its own lair first. and A fox smells its own stink first.
Don't cut off your nose to spite your face. He who pays the piper calls the tune. Happy wife, happy life.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. You need to bait the hook to catch the fish.
Briefer version 'A miss is as good as a mile' Theakston me, but Theakston my brother and you'll have God to answer to Pain is only weakness leaving the body. U.S. Marines proverb
Two wrongs don't make a right. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Yogi Berra Variant: It's not over till it's over. As California goes, so goes the nation.
If the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain.. Birds of a feather flock together. Let him who is without sin cast the first stone. -- Jesus Christ
He that stands for nothing will fall for everything. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Politics makes strange bedfellows. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts Life's a Witch and then you fly.
No man is an island The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Simple things amuse simple minds You can't have it both ways. The highest attainable level of quality. (also used is: Good as Greg.)
Two heads are better than one. Haste makes waste. Ben Franklin A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. All of you that...