- deskpilot
- 3 days ago
Those contradictory old proverbs. You know. On the one hand, you shouldn’t ‘look a gift horse in the mouth’. But on the other hand, ‘beware of Greeks bearing gifts’. Not helpful.
Apparently you are supposed to ‘paddle your own canoe’, which seems at odds with ‘two heads are better than one’. And ‘many hands make light work’, but ‘too many cooks spoil the broth’. It’s starting to seem like these proverbs were made up to justify whatever dumb thing someone was about to do.
Here is our second instalment of updated proverbs for modern times:
Absence makes the heart find someone else
It's better to receive than give.
The Evri cloud does NOT have a silver lining
A problem shared means two people have a problem
All's well that ends
Might may not be right, but it is always might
You don't necessarily get what you pay for, but you're very unlikely to get what you don't pay for
A journey of a thousand miles starts with one wrong step.
A problem shared is a laugh down the pub later.
From great Sycamores tiny seedlings grow
Give a man a fish; and you feed him for one day. Allow him to own military grade weapons, let ICE agents murder his neighbours, and you've got a civil war on your hands.
If at first you don't succeed, start another, then another, party, then collect the has-beens and never-wases from a failed party and try again.
You can teach an old dog new tricks, but it might not remember them.
Least said, soonest re-elected
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