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I think there is great wisom in cliches. Cunninglinguist is so funny!  sam

posted by sam444 on May 13, 2008 at 8:47 AM | link to this | reply

Haha, good post, Dear Mysteria!..My Mother passes this gem along

quite often..'You get more flies with honey than you do with vinegar'..but I never can figure out why I would want freakin flies in the first place, all buzzy and regurgitating..ick, hand me the swatter, instead, lol..

posted by PoetRaye on May 13, 2008 at 8:27 AM | link to this | reply

excellent! Just what I was looking for. And then you can mix them up.

You can lead a person to water but you can't make them a horse.
Ask not what your country can do for you; we have layers for that sort of thing.
Sticks and stones will break my bones but names... we're talking lawsuit.
All things will pass and all things will pass gas.
'Tis better to have loved and lost than to get kicked in the crotch by a Clydesdale.
Love is blind and it's collecting disability, milking the system for all it's worth.
It's what's inside that counts.  Bloody, gory, pulsating globs of human entrails -- now that's ugly.
The meek shall scratch lottery tickets.
Anything that doesn't kill me is a friend of mine.
Where there's smoke there's a Rastafarian.
He who laughs last just doesn't get it.
Diamonds are forever, as is the process of paying for 'em.
I'm at the end of my tither and I don't even know what a tither is and that's really pissing me off!
The grass is always greener when someone else is smoking it.
People in glass houses should use the neighbor's bathroom.
If a tree falls in the forest and there's nobody there, does it make the same sound as one hand clapping?
Birds of a feather can't fly.  They only have one feather.

posted by CunningLinguist on May 13, 2008 at 8:18 AM | link to this | reply