- A penny saved is a penny earned.
- A washed pot never boils. (This one was related by way of a Yeti, so it may be garbled by a mild speech impediment)
- Because.
- Big events always cast their shadows.
- Eat it up, it'll make your hair curly.
- Everything comes to he who waits.
- Every second counts.
- Hard work never did anybody any harm.
- I can't be having with that kind of thing.
- I'd forget my own head if it wasn't nailed on.
- If you have another one you won't have an appetite for your dinner.
- If you want a thing done properly you've got to do it yourself.
- I haven't got all day, you know.
- I have only one pair of hands.
- I'm not as green as I'm cabbage-looking.
- It does you good to get out in the fresh air.
- It never rains but it pours.
- It's amazing what you see if you keep your eyes open. (Koan 124)
- It won't get better if you pick at it.
- I've got a feeling in my water.
- I was not born yesterday.
- Oo, you are so sharp you'll cut yourself one of these days.
- Seeing is believing.
- The big sea does not care which way the little fishes swim.
- There is a Time and a Place for Everything.
- There is no time like the present.
- There's a lot goes on we don't know about, in my opinion.
- We live and learn.
- Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs.
- When you have got to go, you have got to go.
- Wrap up warm or you'll catch your death.
- You can't tell a book by its cover.
- You could knock me down with a feather.
- You never know what's going to turn up.
- You should always wear clean underwear because you never know if you will be knocked down by a cart.
- You've got to learn to walk before you can run
Tuesday, 5 August 2008
The Way of Mrs. Cosmopilite
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