Emma (yelling at my midsection): "Abs! Come out, come out, wherever you are!"
Me: "I think Mama's abs are going to stay hiding."
Showing posts with label quote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quote. Show all posts
Tuesday, 25 November 2025
Sunday, 23 November 2025
A discerning palate
James: "Look! I found popcorn under the couch."
Emma: "I'm not going to eat it. It doesn't have butter."
Also currently on our play list: BTS's Butter
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
On Planning
"I’m a truly horrendous long-term planner. So you’re good at living in the moment? you may ask. Also no."
Saturday, 4 October 2025
How I love thee...
Emma: "I love Mama a million, hundred-gazillion, thousand, billion-billion, thousand-"
James: "That's not a real number."
Friday, 19 September 2025
Heed and Read!
The Bloggess, Jenny Lawson, reminds us of the dangers and what we should do instead:
Reading > cleaning
September 12, 2025
I decided to clean up the house and a frame I was polishing broke and the glass went through my finger and now I can only type with one hand because it keeps opening up and this feels like a sign that cleaning is dangerous and that instead I should be reading.
Wednesday, 15 January 2025
"I am not untidy,"
"I am not untidy," I objected. "I merely surround myself with a plethora of possibilities."
Aggie Morton Mystery Queen: The Body Under the Piano by Marthe Jocelyn
Tuesday, 25 June 2024
Wrapped Down
Emma: "Mama, it's OK. You're not the messiest person in the world. I know some toddlers that are soooo messy."
I don't think she meant it as a burn, but ouch.
I need to step up my Taco Tuesday balancing/wrapping game -- I just like salsa and yogurt too much?
Sunday, 10 March 2024
The natural progression...
"First you're a baby, then a toddler, then a preschooler, then adolt, then a daddy, then a mommy, then a grandma, then a skeleton, and then a kitty."
~ Emma, age 4 and 1/2
Friday, 25 June 2021
Monday, 1 June 2020
"I miss the luxury..."
"I miss the luxury of caring about stuff that doesn't matter." ~ John Green
It's a marathon.
It's a marathon.
Friday, 7 June 2019
I take it back.
If only I could convince James that he'll regret it too :P
"I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger."
Monday, 7 August 2017
Why didn't I think of that?
For our mystery kitchen sink leak:
"DIY Tip! When your faucet is leaking you can make it stop by burning the house down."
"DIY Tip! When your faucet is leaking you can make it stop by burning the house down."
Thursday, 23 June 2016
My Hollywood
At home with a newborn, and husband, Paul, is starting a new career...
That's me, but also it's Claire, one of the narrators in Mona Simpson's My Hollywood. It's eerie reading her reactions and thoughts and seeing myself on the page. Every time "Will" is mentioned, I would see "James" -- at least in the early chapters.
I'm past those crushing feelings from the early months. But I do still occasionally feel sad. A part of it is probably over-anticipating Lola's heartbreak for my own. Will I ever gain her wisdom?
Anyway, the book came into my radar from the This American Life's archives, "$ 82.50 A Day." Act 5 of Secret Life of Daytime. I'm finally catching up :P
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P.6 \ That's how they get you. I'd heard that phrase all my childhood, though who they were was never clear. Ten in the morning, Will seventeen weeks old, I knocked over the bottle of milk I'd been pumping. It hurt to pump, but I'd already adjusted to the sucking bites and the odd porousness of my nipples after. I hiccuped sobs, moving around the black kitchen. We needed those ounces. I had a concert in New York in nine weeks.
Then he started crying too. I rocked him, his blanket loosening. No atter how many times I studied the folding diagram, my swaddlings opened. His small arms shook, his face blotchy. Everyone told me babies liked the bouncy chair. I slid Little Him in, and he screamed. Paul was gone. Will and I were both exhausted. I couldn't sleep because I believed our baby might die. I didn't know why he wouldn't sleep. This was a monumental responsibility, like nothing I'd ever known.
...
I had no talent for this. Paul could make funny sounds like the track of a cartoon, momentarily interrupting Will's misery. But Paul wasn't here. Will and I both felt astonished that he was stuck with me.
...
He wasn't the only one who cried. Paul understood that I stumbled around the rental house broken and that this, too, might be something we'd have to endure. Still, I cried too much. That at least had to be fixed.
P. 143 \ Even now, I wasn't sure what I could tell a daughter. I should have been raising Will to be different. But I felt a little of what the rich must feel: I didn't want to give away his advantages. When I picked up his clothes from the floor, I chanted iambic: Your wife is going to hate me. But by then I will be very very old.
P. 238 \ ... I hardly remember the beginning anymore; I remembered it the way you remember someone else's life. There was a year he woke up at five. Paul changed his diaper and drove around until Will's neck wilted on the car seat. For months, I'd worried about whether I had enough milk. I didn't want Will to have a drop of anything else, even water. I pumped and Lola marked the date on each bottle. So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after. Little Him would never remember. All the closeness; looking up into your eyes as he sucked; you could have fed him unwarmed formula, for all he'd know by the age of memory.
At a year, Lola stopped boiling the bottles. At fourteen months, I weaned him. If I'd succeeded at this or failed, it was finished.
That's me, but also it's Claire, one of the narrators in Mona Simpson's My Hollywood. It's eerie reading her reactions and thoughts and seeing myself on the page. Every time "Will" is mentioned, I would see "James" -- at least in the early chapters.
I'm past those crushing feelings from the early months. But I do still occasionally feel sad. A part of it is probably over-anticipating Lola's heartbreak for my own. Will I ever gain her wisdom?
Anyway, the book came into my radar from the This American Life's archives, "$ 82.50 A Day." Act 5 of Secret Life of Daytime. I'm finally catching up :P
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P.6 \ That's how they get you. I'd heard that phrase all my childhood, though who they were was never clear. Ten in the morning, Will seventeen weeks old, I knocked over the bottle of milk I'd been pumping. It hurt to pump, but I'd already adjusted to the sucking bites and the odd porousness of my nipples after. I hiccuped sobs, moving around the black kitchen. We needed those ounces. I had a concert in New York in nine weeks.
Then he started crying too. I rocked him, his blanket loosening. No atter how many times I studied the folding diagram, my swaddlings opened. His small arms shook, his face blotchy. Everyone told me babies liked the bouncy chair. I slid Little Him in, and he screamed. Paul was gone. Will and I were both exhausted. I couldn't sleep because I believed our baby might die. I didn't know why he wouldn't sleep. This was a monumental responsibility, like nothing I'd ever known.
...
I had no talent for this. Paul could make funny sounds like the track of a cartoon, momentarily interrupting Will's misery. But Paul wasn't here. Will and I both felt astonished that he was stuck with me.
...
He wasn't the only one who cried. Paul understood that I stumbled around the rental house broken and that this, too, might be something we'd have to endure. Still, I cried too much. That at least had to be fixed.
P. 143 \ Even now, I wasn't sure what I could tell a daughter. I should have been raising Will to be different. But I felt a little of what the rich must feel: I didn't want to give away his advantages. When I picked up his clothes from the floor, I chanted iambic: Your wife is going to hate me. But by then I will be very very old.
P. 238 \ ... I hardly remember the beginning anymore; I remembered it the way you remember someone else's life. There was a year he woke up at five. Paul changed his diaper and drove around until Will's neck wilted on the car seat. For months, I'd worried about whether I had enough milk. I didn't want Will to have a drop of anything else, even water. I pumped and Lola marked the date on each bottle. So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after. Little Him would never remember. All the closeness; looking up into your eyes as he sucked; you could have fed him unwarmed formula, for all he'd know by the age of memory.
At a year, Lola stopped boiling the bottles. At fourteen months, I weaned him. If I'd succeeded at this or failed, it was finished.
Sunday, 19 June 2016
Fathers' Day!
Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, Who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, And joined in thy innocent glee.
It's Father's Day!
It's a good day for some flying...
... and comparing / taking stock. (below: When did James's head get bigger than Paul's fist?!)
A little quiet time in the morning to celebrate Paul. And then it was to celebrate my Dad, "the big Daddy" (/ diva) with dim sum at Marco Polo. (Though, Paul does like dim sum a lot, so it was kind of for him too...)
Annoyingly, Dad always chooses Marco Polo, and almost always complains about the food. (So what if it's on the second floor -- a pun being "a level better than the rest" if you don't actually like it?).
Anyway, Father's day for me is again about family getting together and hanging out... which we managed a little at their place after dinner.
James couldn't keep his eyes off Kevin. (Does he recognise this is another boy / like him? Or is because of what he's wearing?)
Everyone was so smiley! Even Carl, who lit up when he saw James (though James wasn't so happy about it). Was he this cheerful with his kids? I can't even remember.
Yep, it was a long day with a lot of activity and noise... but a pretty good one.
Below right: James fell asleep sitting up.
~Margaret Courtney
It's Father's Day!
... and comparing / taking stock. (below: When did James's head get bigger than Paul's fist?!)
Annoyingly, Dad always chooses Marco Polo, and almost always complains about the food. (So what if it's on the second floor -- a pun being "a level better than the rest" if you don't actually like it?). Anyway, Father's day for me is again about family getting together and hanging out... which we managed a little at their place after dinner.
James couldn't keep his eyes off Kevin. (Does he recognise this is another boy / like him? Or is because of what he's wearing?)
Everyone was so smiley! Even Carl, who lit up when he saw James (though James wasn't so happy about it). Was he this cheerful with his kids? I can't even remember.
Yep, it was a long day with a lot of activity and noise... but a pretty good one.
Below right: James fell asleep sitting up.
Friday, 10 June 2016
Items 352 to 378
"Day 27": James has received so many great books (thanks to all the lovelies)... I've put some more effort to reading and clearing out my bookshelves to make space.
1. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen - Finally finished! Started May 2013 and sat on the shelf at 85% done. Good to read, not likely to read again.
16. A Distant Soil, Vol. 1: The Gathering (A Distant Soil #1) by Colleen Doran - Picked it up for the beautiful artwork. Finally read it and do think the story has potential, but I'm not gripped enough to start collecting it.
17. Food and Wine, January 2008 - "100 Best Recipes, Restaurants + Wines for 2008" - Food, wine, travelling for food and wine... I can totally see Clarence or Christiana reading this magazine, but it's a little far out there for me. Beautiful photos.
18. Bon Appetit, October 2012 - "The Home Entertaining Issue" - A little more accessible than Food and Wine (#17) with more recipes and a Canadian focus. Nice photos.
19. National Geographic Traveler, July/Aug 2010 - "Europe Rail Trips, Paris in August..." - See #11
20. Group Therapy a novel by Shelby Hearon - A chance to practice my "Southern Accent" for about 15 minutes while reading aloud to James. I didn't expect that much from the library discard that I've been moving from house to house, but it turned out to be worth it to read with some beautiful writing and scenes about a woman coming into own, and a glimpse into the North v. South conflicts in the US in the 70s
21. Westworld Alberta, November 2008 - "Viva la Vida Latina" - While the headliner is about "3 fun, affordable, hot winter escapes", I think this AMA publication is most valuable in its Canadian and Albertan travel advice (from health insurance to driving tips) and trip plans. I'll consider picking up a more current copy when I'm ready / looking for a good road trip :)
22. Westworld Alberta, February 2011 - "Shipwrecked! Burmuda's Best sunken-ship dives"
23. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill - While his graphic novel Locke & Key was pretty neat, this one was just o.k. But then again, I'm not much of a horror reader any more.
24. Lonely Planet Magazine, December 2008 - "First Issue" - This British publication has feature length articles that made me actually interested going to the places presented. At the end of each article, helpful summary of annual climate and "3 Ways to Do It..." (Budget,Mid-Range, and Luxurious Sleep, Eat, See/ Tour / Ride recommendations). Stephen Fry's Wild West Road Trip - a selection from Stephen Fry in America) and "In Search of the Perfect Chicken Tikka", in India, by Rob Bright were the highlights.
Three books kept for the one beautiful / relatable passage:
25. The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart - (p. 312)
"... Now I understand that until that dreadful night he had clung to the belief that I might come to have some affection for the small, the delicate, the fragile. At the time, I remained staring stupidly at the mess on the floor, this reprimand spelled out in shards, which told me that George believed that I had never understood, that I was responsible, that the scene that greeted me in this boyhood room had been created by me as surely as if it were a painting I had completed with my own hand. It told me he was convinced that what had transpired was a deliberate act of cruelty on my part.
But it was much worse than that. It was an act of carelessness."
26. One Day by David Nicholls - (p. 263-264)
"This wasn't the first wave of weddings. Some of their contemporaries had even got married at University, but in that self-conscious wacky, rag-week way, a let's pretend parody of a wedding, like the jokey student 'dinner parties' where everyone wore evening dress to eat tuna pasta bake...
The second wave, the mid-twenties weddings, still retained a little of that tongue-in-cheek, home-made quality...
... this year is the year of the third wave, and it is the third wave that is proving the most powerful, the most spectacular, the most devastating. These are the weddings of people in their early-to-mid-thirties, and no-one is laughing anymore.
The third wave is unstoppable. Every week seems to bring another luxuriantly creamy envelope, the thickness of a letterbomb, containing a complex invitation -- a triumph of paper engineering -- and a comprehensive dossier of phone numbers, email address, websites, how to get there, what to wear, where to buy the gifts. Country house hotels are being block-booked, great schools of salmon are being poached, vast marquees are appearing overnight like Bedouin tent cities."
27. The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music by Steve Lopez - (p. 96-97)
"If two-year-olds are supposed to be terrible, so far Alison and I are lucky... Fortunately I've caught all the big milestones, but the really good stuff is nothing you can write in a journal. It's an expression that only you can see the changes in, it's the emergence of a personality unique to the world, it's the way she comes out of the bath with her hair slicked back and you catch a glimpse of what she might look like when she's older."
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| Some of the 27 |
2. Hamlet by William Shakespeare - Kept for Paul, who still hasn't read it. He can pick up his own copy when he finally wants to.
3. Architectural Digest, June 2011 - "Open House: Stylish Living, Indoors and Out" - Looks like a architecture magazine, but reads like a lifestyle mag with luxury goods adverts that wouldn't be out of place in Vogue. Beautiful to look at, but no reason to keep.
4. BBC Knowledge, June 2010 Issue 11 - "Born to Sin: Science explains why it's good to be bad" - Souvenir from my 2011 UK trip, beautiful photos, but for reporting I prefer the radio version ;)
5. Very Grimm Fairy Tales: Cautionary tales from the pen of Trevor Strong - Read the first story and decided these were not for me. Good! It can go.
6. Discover, October 2005 - "Special 25th Anniversary Issue" - Fun to see what was speculative science 10 years ago, so much hope and potential that I see some are still being explored (e.g. nanotechnology) and some proven (e.g. Infectious Diseases drug resistance and microbe links to behavioural diseases).
7. Reader's Digest, June 2014 - Angela stocked these in her house and I loved reading them as a kid, probably because it made me feel like I was smart. The topics are still really interesting, but not in depth enough for my taste. Like a magazines, read and done.
8. Reader's Digest, December 2014
9. Trinny & Susannah's The Body Shape Bible - I think I was a skittle? Am I still a skittle? The slightly more balanced version of the pear (average shoulders, and chest rather than the latter's small) sounds pretty good right now... best not think of it until the dust (body) settles.
10. Azure, July/August 2011 - "The Best Architecture & Design: 2011 AZ Awards Annual" - This one is really about architecture and design. So pretty, but don't need to keep.
11. National Geographic Traveler, March 2010 - "Undiscovered Maui" - Not really thinking about travel right now, but a quick flip through confirmed this might not be the right publication for me anyway. Two articles of interest "The lure of secret places" (Yes, I love them too! But don't necessarily need to travel for them...) and "Adventures in Indonesia: Discovering the lessons travel can offer" (learned that I will have trouble trusting and opening myself like that for the ultimate experience).
12. Paper/Cuts, Volume I, Issue I, Winter 2004 - This student created writing magazine from Grant MaceEwan has lots of local flair, and some good writing tips. I wonder if I would have appreciated it more back when I first got it. Now, feel the tone and topics not quite right to help me with writing.
13. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson - Was so good I kept it, but realistically won't read again.
14. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson - The first one was so good, I got the second one. But now that I've finally read it, it's the same as the first book: really good, but realistically won't be reading again.
15. All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India by Rachel Manija Brown - can't even remember when I got this. Now read, it can go.
17. Food and Wine, January 2008 - "100 Best Recipes, Restaurants + Wines for 2008" - Food, wine, travelling for food and wine... I can totally see Clarence or Christiana reading this magazine, but it's a little far out there for me. Beautiful photos.
18. Bon Appetit, October 2012 - "The Home Entertaining Issue" - A little more accessible than Food and Wine (#17) with more recipes and a Canadian focus. Nice photos.
19. National Geographic Traveler, July/Aug 2010 - "Europe Rail Trips, Paris in August..." - See #11
20. Group Therapy a novel by Shelby Hearon - A chance to practice my "Southern Accent" for about 15 minutes while reading aloud to James. I didn't expect that much from the library discard that I've been moving from house to house, but it turned out to be worth it to read with some beautiful writing and scenes about a woman coming into own, and a glimpse into the North v. South conflicts in the US in the 70s
21. Westworld Alberta, November 2008 - "Viva la Vida Latina" - While the headliner is about "3 fun, affordable, hot winter escapes", I think this AMA publication is most valuable in its Canadian and Albertan travel advice (from health insurance to driving tips) and trip plans. I'll consider picking up a more current copy when I'm ready / looking for a good road trip :)
22. Westworld Alberta, February 2011 - "Shipwrecked! Burmuda's Best sunken-ship dives"
23. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill - While his graphic novel Locke & Key was pretty neat, this one was just o.k. But then again, I'm not much of a horror reader any more.
24. Lonely Planet Magazine, December 2008 - "First Issue" - This British publication has feature length articles that made me actually interested going to the places presented. At the end of each article, helpful summary of annual climate and "3 Ways to Do It..." (Budget,Mid-Range, and Luxurious Sleep, Eat, See/ Tour / Ride recommendations). Stephen Fry's Wild West Road Trip - a selection from Stephen Fry in America) and "In Search of the Perfect Chicken Tikka", in India, by Rob Bright were the highlights.
Three books kept for the one beautiful / relatable passage:
25. The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart - (p. 312)
"... Now I understand that until that dreadful night he had clung to the belief that I might come to have some affection for the small, the delicate, the fragile. At the time, I remained staring stupidly at the mess on the floor, this reprimand spelled out in shards, which told me that George believed that I had never understood, that I was responsible, that the scene that greeted me in this boyhood room had been created by me as surely as if it were a painting I had completed with my own hand. It told me he was convinced that what had transpired was a deliberate act of cruelty on my part.
But it was much worse than that. It was an act of carelessness."
26. One Day by David Nicholls - (p. 263-264)
"This wasn't the first wave of weddings. Some of their contemporaries had even got married at University, but in that self-conscious wacky, rag-week way, a let's pretend parody of a wedding, like the jokey student 'dinner parties' where everyone wore evening dress to eat tuna pasta bake...
The second wave, the mid-twenties weddings, still retained a little of that tongue-in-cheek, home-made quality...
... this year is the year of the third wave, and it is the third wave that is proving the most powerful, the most spectacular, the most devastating. These are the weddings of people in their early-to-mid-thirties, and no-one is laughing anymore.
The third wave is unstoppable. Every week seems to bring another luxuriantly creamy envelope, the thickness of a letterbomb, containing a complex invitation -- a triumph of paper engineering -- and a comprehensive dossier of phone numbers, email address, websites, how to get there, what to wear, where to buy the gifts. Country house hotels are being block-booked, great schools of salmon are being poached, vast marquees are appearing overnight like Bedouin tent cities."
27. The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music by Steve Lopez - (p. 96-97)
"If two-year-olds are supposed to be terrible, so far Alison and I are lucky... Fortunately I've caught all the big milestones, but the really good stuff is nothing you can write in a journal. It's an expression that only you can see the changes in, it's the emergence of a personality unique to the world, it's the way she comes out of the bath with her hair slicked back and you catch a glimpse of what she might look like when she's older."
Tuesday, 29 March 2016
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
Friday, 28 September 2012
Cheep-Cheep-Cheep... Cheep-Cheep-Cheep...
"When you were away from your desk, there were birds singing in your office... something like a chicken or cute penguin." ~ Olivia
Guess who has a new cell phone?! And a text plan? Crazy!
I'm finally being dragged into... only being 10 years behind in technology :P Already it's been fun: Catherine got a text first, and then Celina. Both were surprised.
Um, but now this means I'll have to record a new voicemail message. Ugh.
Guess who has a new cell phone?! And a text plan? Crazy!
I'm finally being dragged into... only being 10 years behind in technology :P Already it's been fun: Catherine got a text first, and then Celina. Both were surprised.
Um, but now this means I'll have to record a new voicemail message. Ugh.
Saturday, 14 January 2012
Let Sleeping Potatoes Lie
It's been a whole year of daily proverbs from Paul's calendar. Many of them led to interesting interpretation discussions and some were even good (and strangely timely) advice.
Paul's been typing them into a file once they've been pulled off the calendar. Today he started playing with the data.
Dogs seem to appear quite often. How often?* Do a quick find and replace and you get a count.
Now, was it because I happened to be peeling a potato when Paul was doing just that and inspiration struck? All of a sudden I was hearing him read out:
Every potato has his day.
You can't teach an old potato new tricks.
I laughed, but um... they're still strangely meaningful.
Below are the proverbs and their respective dates. Do you have a favourite?
* There are 10 instances.
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01/01/2011: A cherry year, a merry year; a plum year, a dumb year.
02/01/2011: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
03/01/2011: Who won't be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.
04/01/2011: You never miss the water till the well runs dry.
05/01/2011: Speech is silver, but silence is golden.
06/01/2011: A watched pot never boils over [sic].
07/01/2011: Time and tide will wait for no man.
08/01/2011: All things come to those who wait.
09/01/2011: Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.
10/01/2011: A bleating sheep loses a bite.
11/01/2011: In vain the net is spread in the sight of the bird.
12/01/2011: Little leaks sink the ship.
13/01/2011: What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.
14/01/2011: Charity begins at home.
15/01/2011: Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
16/01/2011: The pen is mightier than the sword.
17/01/2011: The leopard does not change his spots.
18/01/2011: The sun loses nothing by shining into a puddle.
19/01/2011: Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
20/01/2011: Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
21/01/2011: He that cannot obey cannot command.
22/01/2011: Second thoughts are best.
23/01/2011: No man can serve two masters.
24/01/2011: When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
25/01/2011: We must eat a peck of dirt before we die.
26/01/2011: It is never too late to mend.
27/01/2011: Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
28/01/2011: Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
29/01/2011: He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.
30/01/2011: Virtue is its own reward.
31/01/2011: Thrift is a great revenue.
01/02/2011: If in February there be no rain, 'tis neither good for hay nor grain.
02/02/2011: Least said, soonest mended.
03/02/2011: Don't cross the bridge till you come to it.
04/02/2011: Out of debt, out of danger.
05/02/2011: The rotten apple injures its neighbour.
06/02/2011: After dinner rest a while, after supper walk a mile.
07/02/2011: What can you expect from a pig but a grunt.
08/02/2011: Life isn't all beer and skittles.
09/02/2011: What's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.
10/02/2011: None but the brave deserve the fair.
11/02/2011: Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.
12/02/2011: No one should be judge in his own cause.
13/02/2011: Patience is a virtue.
14/02/2011: A faint heart never won a fair lady.
15/02/2011: Happy's the wooing that's not long a-doing.
16/02/2011: The unexpected always happens.
17/02/2011: Procrastination is the thief of time.
18/02/2011: It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
19/02/2011: A cat in gloves catches no mice.
20/02/2011: The best doctors are Dr Diet, Dr Quiet, and Dr Merryman.
21/02/2011: Enough is good as a feast.
22/02/2011: What you've never had you never miss.
23/02/2011: Variety is the spice of life.
24/02/2011: If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
25/02/2011: Do not meet troubles half-way.
26/02/2011: After a storm comes a calm.
27/02/2011: Promises, like pie-crust, are made to be broken.
28/02/2011: The husband is always the last to know.
01/03/2011: March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.
02/03/2011: Little pitchers have large ears.
03/03/2011: A mouse may help a lion.
04/03/2011: Straws tell which way the wind blows.
05/03/2011: Home is where the hearth [sic] is.
06/03/2011: What can't be cured must be endured.
07/03/2011: Honey catches more flies than vinegar.
08/03/2011: The buyer has need of a hundred eyes, the seller of but one.
09/03/2011: A bully is always a coward.
10/03/2011: The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
11/03/2011: An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
12/03/2011: It is better to be born lucky than rich.
13/03/2011: Little strokes fell great oaks.
14/03/2011: In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.
15/03/2011: A rising tide lifts all boats.
16/03/2011: A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
17/03/2011: Fine words butter no parsnips.
18/03/2011: Keep no more cats than will catch mice.
19/03/2011: Two wrongs don't make a right.
20/03/2011: Haste makes waste.
21/03/2011: It is not spring until you can plant your foot upon twelve daisies.
22/03/2011: Never send a boy to do a man's job.
23/03/2011: He who hesitates is lost.
24/03/2011: Any publicity is good publicity.
25/03/2011: Any port in a storm.
26/03/2011: Constant dropping wears away stone.
27/03/2011: Go abroad and you'll hear news of home.
28/03/2011: Better safe than sorry.
29/03/2011: Penny wise and pound foolish.
30/03/2011: When one door shuts, another opens.
31/03/2011: Please your eye and plague your heart.
01/04/2011: Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
02/04/2011: Punctuality is the soul of business.
03/04/2011: One story is good till another is told.
04/04/2011: Hurry no man's cattle.
05/04/2011: All's fair in love and war.
06/04/2011: Every dog has his day.
07/04/2011: It's a sin to steal a pin.
08/04/2011: Cheats never prosper.
09/04/2011: He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day.
10/04/2011: It is best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new.
11/04/2011: The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat.
12/04/2011: While there's life there's hope.
13/04/2011: Handsome is as handsome does.
14/04/2011: A bird never flew on one wing.
15/04/2011: Blessings brighten as they take their flight.
16/04/2011: You cannot shift an old tree without it dying.
17/04/2011: Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
18/04/2011: Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
19/04/2011: A hungry man is an angry man.
20/04/2011: The best of men are but men at best.
21/04/2011: The early bird catches the worm.
22/04/2011: You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
23/04/2011: Out of sight, out of mind.
24/04/2011: Curiosity killed the cat.
25/04/2011: Adventures are to the adventurous.
26/04/2011: The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
27/04/2011: There goes more to marriage than four bare legs in a bed.
28/04/2011: Dog does not eat dog.
29/04/2011: Manners maketh man.
30/04/2011: Judge not, that ye be not judged.
01/05/2011: Fair and softly goes far in a day.
02/05/2011: They that dance must pay the fiddler.
03/05/2011: Long foretold, long last; soon notice, short last.
04/05/2011: Be just before you're generous.
05/05/2011: The cowl does not make the monk.
06/05/2011: Ask no questions and hear no lies.
07/05/2011: Give credit where credit is due.
08/05/2011: A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.
09/05/2011: Beauty is only skin deep.
10/05/2011: Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
11/05/2011: A penny saved is [sic] penny earned.
12/05/2011: There is nothing lost by civility.
13/05/2011: The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
14/05/2011: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
15/05/2011: Eat to live, not live to eat.
16/05/2011: Poverty is no disgrace, but it's a great inconvenience.
17/05/2011: Cut your coat according to your cloth.
18/05/2011: Never too old to learn.
19/05/2011: You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
20/05/2011: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
21/05/2011: Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
22/05/2011: Great oaks from little acorns grow.
23/05/2011: Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see.
24/05/2011: While two dogs are fighting for a bone, a third runs away with it.
25/05/2011: A trouble shared is a trouble halved.
26/05/2011: Time is a great healer.
27/05/2011: A still tongue makes a wise head.
28/05/2011: Set a thief to catch a thief.
29/05/2011: Good fences make good neighbours.
30/05/2011: Empty sacks will never stand upright.
31/05/2011: Whatever man has done, man may do.
01/06/2011: A dripping June sets all in tune.
02/06/2011: There is no royal road to learning.
03/06/2011: You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
04/06/2011: Too many cooks spoil the broth.
05/06/2011: The early man never borrows from the late man.
06/06/2011: Never marry for money, but marry where money is.
07/06/2011: Misfortunes never come singly.
08/06/2011: Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.
09/06/2011: Cleanliness is next to godliness.
10/06/2011: The bread never falls but on its buttered side.
11/06/2011: The squeaking wheel gets the grease.
12/06/2011: One wedding brings another.
13/06/2011: One volunteer is worth two pressed men.
14/06/2011: Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
15/06/2011: Half the truth is often a whole lie.
16/06/2011: A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a good couple.
17/06/2011: Cowards may die many times before their death.
18/06/2011: Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
19/06/2011: You can have too much of a good thing.
20/06/2011: Two of a trade never agree.
21/06/2011: One swallow does not make a summer.
22/06/2011: If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
23/06/2011: Little things please little minds.
24/06/2011: We must learn to walk before we can run.
25/06/2011: Civility costs nothing.
26/06/2011: If you run after two hares you will catch neither.
27/06/2011: It is a poor heart that never rejoices.
28/06/2011: Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
29/06/2011: It's too late to shut the stable door after the horse has bolted.
30/06/2011: Full cup, steady hand.
01/07/2011: Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
02/07/2011: A bad excuse is better than none.
03/07/2011: It is the first step that is difficult.
04/07/2011: Where there's a will, there's a way.
05/07/2011: A liar ought to have a good memory.
06/07/2011: It is good to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy.
07/07/2011: Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
08/07/2011: It takes two to make a bargain.
09/07/2011: It never rains but it pours.
10/07/2011: If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
11/07/2011: It takes three generations to make a gentleman.
12/07/2011: Do not throw pearls to swine.
13/07/2011: Don't change horses in mid stream.
14/07/2011: What is given to a neighbour is not lost.
15/07/2011: There is an exception to every rule.
16/07/2011: It is not work that kills, but worry.
17/07/2011: A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
18/07/2011: You can take a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink.
19/07/2011: A slice off a cut loaf isn't missed.
20/07/2011: Punctuality is the politeness of princes.
21/07/2011: Don't throw out your dirty water until you get in fresh.
22/07/2011: The sooner begun, the sooner done.
23/07/2011: Lend your money and lose your friend.
24/07/2011: It takes two to make a quarrel.
25/07/2011: Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
26/07/2011: A live dog is better than a dead lion.
27/07/2011: A king's chaff is worth more than other men's corn.
28/07/2011: Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.
29/07/2011: The last drop makes the cup run over.
30/07/2011: When the cat's away, the mice will play.
31/07/2011: A civil question deserves a civil answer.
01/08/2011: If you don't make mistakes you don't make anything.
02/08/2011: A bad workman blames his tools.
03/08/2011: A fool and his money are soon parted.
04/08/2011: Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
05/08/2011: He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.
06/08/2011: Life begins at forty.
07/08/2011: If you don't like the heat, get out of the kitchen.
08/08/2011: Young men may die, but old men must die.
09/08/2011: Bad money drives out good.
10/08/2011: It is a wise child that knows its own father.
11/08/2011: There's none so blind as those who will not see.
12/08/2011: You cannot lose what you never had.
13/08/2011: Beggars can't be choosers.
14/08/2011: The longest way round is the shortest way home.
15/08/2011: What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
16/08/2011: Long and lazy, little and loud; fat and fulsome, pretty and proud.
17/08/2011: Learning is better than house and land.
18/08/2011: He that drinks beer, thinks beer.
19/08/2011: One law for the rich and another for the poor.
20/08/2011: Misery loves company.
21/08/2011: The best things in life are free.
22/08/2011: Love laughs at locksmiths.
23/08/2011: One man's loss is another man's gain.
24/08/2011: Rome was not built in a day.
25/08/2011: Make hay while the sun shines.
26/08/2011: A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
27/08/2011: Children are certain cares, but uncertain comforts.
28/08/2011: A reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall.
29/08/2011: If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands.
30/08/2011: The devil can quote Scripture for his own ends.
31/08/2011: A fault confessed is half redressed.
01/09/2011: September blow soft till the fruit's in the loft.
02/09/2011: Ask a silly question and you get a silly answer.
03/09/2011: Common fame is seldom to blame.
04/09/2011: A rolling stone gathers no moss.
05/09/2011: If you can't be good, be careful.
06/09/2011: You never know what you can do till you try.
07/09/2011: What goes up must come down.
08/09/2011: Children and fools tell the truth.
09/09/2011: If every man would sweep his own door-step the city would soon be clean.
10/09/2011: Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
11/09/2011: The better the day, the better the deed.
12/09/2011: The apple never falls far from the tree.
13/09/2011: The course of true love never did run smoothly.
14/09/2011: Necessity is the mother of invention.
15/09/2011: A creaking door hangs the longest.
16/09/2011: Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
17/09/2011: Love and a cough cannot be hid.
18/09/2011: Coming events cast their shadow before.
19/09/2011: Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
20/09/2011: Of two evils choose the less.
21/09/2011: Man cannot live by bread alone.
22/09/2011: Lucky at cards, unlucky in love.
23/09/2011: He who can does, he who cannot, teaches.
24/09/2011: The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
25/09/2011: If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.
26/09/2011: The devil finds work for idle hands to do.
27/09/2011: Old habits die hard.
28/09/2011: You can't tell a book by its cover.
29/09/2011: When the wind is in the east, `tis neither good for man nor beast.
30/09/2011: Marry in haste and repent at leisure.
01/10/2011: One cannot love and be wise.
02/10/2011: The best things come in small packages.
03/10/2011: Red sky at night, shephard's delight; red sky in the morning, shephard's warning.
04/10/2011: Don't cry before you're hurt.
05/10/2011: Let sleeping dogs lie.
06/10/2011: Everyone speaks well of the bridge which carries him over.
07/10/2011: Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
08/10/2011: One man's meat is another man's poison.
09/10/2011: The greater the sinner, the greater the saint.
10/10/2011: Nothing succeeds like success.
11/10/2011: You win a few, you lose a few.
12/10/2011: A stream cannot rise above its source.
13/10/2011: The eyes are the window of the soul.
14/10/2011: Shrouds have no pockets.
15/10/2011: Why should the devil have all the best tunes?
16/10/2011: Keep your shop and your shop will keep you.
17/10/2011: Actions speak louder than words.
18/10/2011: Love begets love.
19/10/2011: An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
20/10/2011: Much would have more.
21/10/2011: Better be envied than pitied.
22/10/2011: A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.
23/10/2011: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
24/10/2011: Young folks think old folks to be fools, but old folks know young folks to be fools.
25/10/2011: Empty vessels make the most sound.
26/10/2011: Many a true word is spoken in jest.
27/10/2011: Nothing should be done in haste but gripping a flea.
28/10/2011: Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
29/10/2011: Once bitten, twice shy.
30/10/2011: Never do evil that good may come of it.
31/10/2011: He that has an ill name is half hanged.
01/11/2011: Wilful waste makes woeful want.
02/11/2011: Old sins cast long shadows.
03/11/2011: Cold hands, warm hearts [sic].
04/11/2011: Prevention is better than cure.
05/11/2011: Many go out for wool and come home shorn.
06/11/2011: There are no birds in last year's nest.
07/11/2011: When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.
08/11/2011: An old poacher makes the best gamekeeper.
09/11/2011: Today you; tomorrow me.
10/11/2011: You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy.
11/11/2011: The darkest hour is just before dawn.
12/11/2011: There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
13/11/2011: Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.
14/11/2011: Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
15/11/2011: If you can't ride two horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus.
16/11/2011: The eye of a master does more work than both his hands.
17/11/2011: More people know Tom Fool than Tom Fool knows.
18/11/2011: One good turn deserves another.
19/11/2011: The more you stir it the worse it stinks.
20/11/2011: Why buy a cow when milk is so cheap?
21/11/2011: Birds of a feather flock together.
22/11/2011: Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
23/11/2011: Pride goes before a fall.
24/11/2011: Diligence is the mother of good luck.
25/11/2011: Fools ask questions that wise men cannot answer.
26/11/2011: Discretion is the better part of valour. --- Shakespeare
27/11/2011: Many hands make light work.
28/11/2011: Light come, light go.
29/11/2011: The tongue always returns to the sore tooth.
30/11/2011: One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
01/12/2011: Do right and fear no man.
02/12/2011: There is a time and place for everything.
03/12/2011: Never let the sun go down on your anger.
04/12/2011: Practise what you preach.
05/12/2011: Dirty water will quench fire.
06/12/2011: Dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.
07/12/2011: A man is known by the company he keeps.
08/12/2011: Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.
09/12/2011: One does not wash one's dirty linen in public.
10/12/2011: Nothing so bad but it might have been worse.
11/12/2011: Out of fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.
12/12/2011: There is a remedy for everything except death.
13/12/2011: It is easy to be wise after the event.
14/12/2011: What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
15/12/2011: One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after.
16/12/2011: Think first and speak afterwards.
17/12/2011: Wonders will never cease.
18/12/2011: The sea refuses no river.
19/12/2011: Moderation in all things.
20/12/2011: Attack is the best form of defense.
21/12/2011: If it were not for hope, the heart would break.
22/12/2011: Strike while the iron is hot.
23/12/2011: The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love.
24/12/2011: The devil makes his Christmas pies of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.
25/12/2011: One seed for the mouse, one for the cow, one to rot, one to grow.
26/12/2011: Confession is good for the soul.
27/12/2011: Every cloud has a silver lining.
28/12/2011: Experience is the father of wisdom.
29/12/2011: The end crowns the work.
30/12/2011: Little birds that can sing and won't sing must be made to sing.
31/12/2011: The difficult is done at once, the impossible takes a little longer.
Paul's been typing them into a file once they've been pulled off the calendar. Today he started playing with the data.
Dogs seem to appear quite often. How often?* Do a quick find and replace and you get a count.
Now, was it because I happened to be peeling a potato when Paul was doing just that and inspiration struck? All of a sudden I was hearing him read out:
Every potato has his day.
You can't teach an old potato new tricks.
I laughed, but um... they're still strangely meaningful.
Below are the proverbs and their respective dates. Do you have a favourite?
* There are 10 instances.
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01/01/2011: A cherry year, a merry year; a plum year, a dumb year.
02/01/2011: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
03/01/2011: Who won't be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.
04/01/2011: You never miss the water till the well runs dry.
05/01/2011: Speech is silver, but silence is golden.
06/01/2011: A watched pot never boils over [sic].
07/01/2011: Time and tide will wait for no man.
08/01/2011: All things come to those who wait.
09/01/2011: Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.
10/01/2011: A bleating sheep loses a bite.
11/01/2011: In vain the net is spread in the sight of the bird.
12/01/2011: Little leaks sink the ship.
13/01/2011: What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.
14/01/2011: Charity begins at home.
15/01/2011: Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
16/01/2011: The pen is mightier than the sword.
17/01/2011: The leopard does not change his spots.
18/01/2011: The sun loses nothing by shining into a puddle.
19/01/2011: Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
20/01/2011: Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
21/01/2011: He that cannot obey cannot command.
22/01/2011: Second thoughts are best.
23/01/2011: No man can serve two masters.
24/01/2011: When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
25/01/2011: We must eat a peck of dirt before we die.
26/01/2011: It is never too late to mend.
27/01/2011: Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
28/01/2011: Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
29/01/2011: He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.
30/01/2011: Virtue is its own reward.
31/01/2011: Thrift is a great revenue.
01/02/2011: If in February there be no rain, 'tis neither good for hay nor grain.
02/02/2011: Least said, soonest mended.
03/02/2011: Don't cross the bridge till you come to it.
04/02/2011: Out of debt, out of danger.
05/02/2011: The rotten apple injures its neighbour.
06/02/2011: After dinner rest a while, after supper walk a mile.
07/02/2011: What can you expect from a pig but a grunt.
08/02/2011: Life isn't all beer and skittles.
09/02/2011: What's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.
10/02/2011: None but the brave deserve the fair.
11/02/2011: Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.
12/02/2011: No one should be judge in his own cause.
13/02/2011: Patience is a virtue.
14/02/2011: A faint heart never won a fair lady.
15/02/2011: Happy's the wooing that's not long a-doing.
16/02/2011: The unexpected always happens.
17/02/2011: Procrastination is the thief of time.
18/02/2011: It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
19/02/2011: A cat in gloves catches no mice.
20/02/2011: The best doctors are Dr Diet, Dr Quiet, and Dr Merryman.
21/02/2011: Enough is good as a feast.
22/02/2011: What you've never had you never miss.
23/02/2011: Variety is the spice of life.
24/02/2011: If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
25/02/2011: Do not meet troubles half-way.
26/02/2011: After a storm comes a calm.
27/02/2011: Promises, like pie-crust, are made to be broken.
28/02/2011: The husband is always the last to know.
01/03/2011: March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.
02/03/2011: Little pitchers have large ears.
03/03/2011: A mouse may help a lion.
04/03/2011: Straws tell which way the wind blows.
05/03/2011: Home is where the hearth [sic] is.
06/03/2011: What can't be cured must be endured.
07/03/2011: Honey catches more flies than vinegar.
08/03/2011: The buyer has need of a hundred eyes, the seller of but one.
09/03/2011: A bully is always a coward.
10/03/2011: The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
11/03/2011: An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
12/03/2011: It is better to be born lucky than rich.
13/03/2011: Little strokes fell great oaks.
14/03/2011: In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.
15/03/2011: A rising tide lifts all boats.
16/03/2011: A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
17/03/2011: Fine words butter no parsnips.
18/03/2011: Keep no more cats than will catch mice.
19/03/2011: Two wrongs don't make a right.
20/03/2011: Haste makes waste.
21/03/2011: It is not spring until you can plant your foot upon twelve daisies.
22/03/2011: Never send a boy to do a man's job.
23/03/2011: He who hesitates is lost.
24/03/2011: Any publicity is good publicity.
25/03/2011: Any port in a storm.
26/03/2011: Constant dropping wears away stone.
27/03/2011: Go abroad and you'll hear news of home.
28/03/2011: Better safe than sorry.
29/03/2011: Penny wise and pound foolish.
30/03/2011: When one door shuts, another opens.
31/03/2011: Please your eye and plague your heart.
01/04/2011: Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
02/04/2011: Punctuality is the soul of business.
03/04/2011: One story is good till another is told.
04/04/2011: Hurry no man's cattle.
05/04/2011: All's fair in love and war.
06/04/2011: Every dog has his day.
07/04/2011: It's a sin to steal a pin.
08/04/2011: Cheats never prosper.
09/04/2011: He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day.
10/04/2011: It is best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new.
11/04/2011: The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat.
12/04/2011: While there's life there's hope.
13/04/2011: Handsome is as handsome does.
14/04/2011: A bird never flew on one wing.
15/04/2011: Blessings brighten as they take their flight.
16/04/2011: You cannot shift an old tree without it dying.
17/04/2011: Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
18/04/2011: Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
19/04/2011: A hungry man is an angry man.
20/04/2011: The best of men are but men at best.
21/04/2011: The early bird catches the worm.
22/04/2011: You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
23/04/2011: Out of sight, out of mind.
24/04/2011: Curiosity killed the cat.
25/04/2011: Adventures are to the adventurous.
26/04/2011: The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
27/04/2011: There goes more to marriage than four bare legs in a bed.
28/04/2011: Dog does not eat dog.
29/04/2011: Manners maketh man.
30/04/2011: Judge not, that ye be not judged.
01/05/2011: Fair and softly goes far in a day.
02/05/2011: They that dance must pay the fiddler.
03/05/2011: Long foretold, long last; soon notice, short last.
04/05/2011: Be just before you're generous.
05/05/2011: The cowl does not make the monk.
06/05/2011: Ask no questions and hear no lies.
07/05/2011: Give credit where credit is due.
08/05/2011: A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.
09/05/2011: Beauty is only skin deep.
10/05/2011: Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
11/05/2011: A penny saved is [sic] penny earned.
12/05/2011: There is nothing lost by civility.
13/05/2011: The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
14/05/2011: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
15/05/2011: Eat to live, not live to eat.
16/05/2011: Poverty is no disgrace, but it's a great inconvenience.
17/05/2011: Cut your coat according to your cloth.
18/05/2011: Never too old to learn.
19/05/2011: You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
20/05/2011: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
21/05/2011: Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
22/05/2011: Great oaks from little acorns grow.
23/05/2011: Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see.
24/05/2011: While two dogs are fighting for a bone, a third runs away with it.
25/05/2011: A trouble shared is a trouble halved.
26/05/2011: Time is a great healer.
27/05/2011: A still tongue makes a wise head.
28/05/2011: Set a thief to catch a thief.
29/05/2011: Good fences make good neighbours.
30/05/2011: Empty sacks will never stand upright.
31/05/2011: Whatever man has done, man may do.
01/06/2011: A dripping June sets all in tune.
02/06/2011: There is no royal road to learning.
03/06/2011: You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
04/06/2011: Too many cooks spoil the broth.
05/06/2011: The early man never borrows from the late man.
06/06/2011: Never marry for money, but marry where money is.
07/06/2011: Misfortunes never come singly.
08/06/2011: Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.
09/06/2011: Cleanliness is next to godliness.
10/06/2011: The bread never falls but on its buttered side.
11/06/2011: The squeaking wheel gets the grease.
12/06/2011: One wedding brings another.
13/06/2011: One volunteer is worth two pressed men.
14/06/2011: Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
15/06/2011: Half the truth is often a whole lie.
16/06/2011: A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a good couple.
17/06/2011: Cowards may die many times before their death.
18/06/2011: Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
19/06/2011: You can have too much of a good thing.
20/06/2011: Two of a trade never agree.
21/06/2011: One swallow does not make a summer.
22/06/2011: If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
23/06/2011: Little things please little minds.
24/06/2011: We must learn to walk before we can run.
25/06/2011: Civility costs nothing.
26/06/2011: If you run after two hares you will catch neither.
27/06/2011: It is a poor heart that never rejoices.
28/06/2011: Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
29/06/2011: It's too late to shut the stable door after the horse has bolted.
30/06/2011: Full cup, steady hand.
01/07/2011: Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
02/07/2011: A bad excuse is better than none.
03/07/2011: It is the first step that is difficult.
04/07/2011: Where there's a will, there's a way.
05/07/2011: A liar ought to have a good memory.
06/07/2011: It is good to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy.
07/07/2011: Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
08/07/2011: It takes two to make a bargain.
09/07/2011: It never rains but it pours.
10/07/2011: If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
11/07/2011: It takes three generations to make a gentleman.
12/07/2011: Do not throw pearls to swine.
13/07/2011: Don't change horses in mid stream.
14/07/2011: What is given to a neighbour is not lost.
15/07/2011: There is an exception to every rule.
16/07/2011: It is not work that kills, but worry.
17/07/2011: A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
18/07/2011: You can take a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink.
19/07/2011: A slice off a cut loaf isn't missed.
20/07/2011: Punctuality is the politeness of princes.
21/07/2011: Don't throw out your dirty water until you get in fresh.
22/07/2011: The sooner begun, the sooner done.
23/07/2011: Lend your money and lose your friend.
24/07/2011: It takes two to make a quarrel.
25/07/2011: Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
26/07/2011: A live dog is better than a dead lion.
27/07/2011: A king's chaff is worth more than other men's corn.
28/07/2011: Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.
29/07/2011: The last drop makes the cup run over.
30/07/2011: When the cat's away, the mice will play.
31/07/2011: A civil question deserves a civil answer.
01/08/2011: If you don't make mistakes you don't make anything.
02/08/2011: A bad workman blames his tools.
03/08/2011: A fool and his money are soon parted.
04/08/2011: Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
05/08/2011: He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.
06/08/2011: Life begins at forty.
07/08/2011: If you don't like the heat, get out of the kitchen.
08/08/2011: Young men may die, but old men must die.
09/08/2011: Bad money drives out good.
10/08/2011: It is a wise child that knows its own father.
11/08/2011: There's none so blind as those who will not see.
12/08/2011: You cannot lose what you never had.
13/08/2011: Beggars can't be choosers.
14/08/2011: The longest way round is the shortest way home.
15/08/2011: What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
16/08/2011: Long and lazy, little and loud; fat and fulsome, pretty and proud.
17/08/2011: Learning is better than house and land.
18/08/2011: He that drinks beer, thinks beer.
19/08/2011: One law for the rich and another for the poor.
20/08/2011: Misery loves company.
21/08/2011: The best things in life are free.
22/08/2011: Love laughs at locksmiths.
23/08/2011: One man's loss is another man's gain.
24/08/2011: Rome was not built in a day.
25/08/2011: Make hay while the sun shines.
26/08/2011: A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
27/08/2011: Children are certain cares, but uncertain comforts.
28/08/2011: A reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall.
29/08/2011: If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands.
30/08/2011: The devil can quote Scripture for his own ends.
31/08/2011: A fault confessed is half redressed.
01/09/2011: September blow soft till the fruit's in the loft.
02/09/2011: Ask a silly question and you get a silly answer.
03/09/2011: Common fame is seldom to blame.
04/09/2011: A rolling stone gathers no moss.
05/09/2011: If you can't be good, be careful.
06/09/2011: You never know what you can do till you try.
07/09/2011: What goes up must come down.
08/09/2011: Children and fools tell the truth.
09/09/2011: If every man would sweep his own door-step the city would soon be clean.
10/09/2011: Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
11/09/2011: The better the day, the better the deed.
12/09/2011: The apple never falls far from the tree.
13/09/2011: The course of true love never did run smoothly.
14/09/2011: Necessity is the mother of invention.
15/09/2011: A creaking door hangs the longest.
16/09/2011: Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
17/09/2011: Love and a cough cannot be hid.
18/09/2011: Coming events cast their shadow before.
19/09/2011: Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
20/09/2011: Of two evils choose the less.
21/09/2011: Man cannot live by bread alone.
22/09/2011: Lucky at cards, unlucky in love.
23/09/2011: He who can does, he who cannot, teaches.
24/09/2011: The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
25/09/2011: If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.
26/09/2011: The devil finds work for idle hands to do.
27/09/2011: Old habits die hard.
28/09/2011: You can't tell a book by its cover.
29/09/2011: When the wind is in the east, `tis neither good for man nor beast.
30/09/2011: Marry in haste and repent at leisure.
01/10/2011: One cannot love and be wise.
02/10/2011: The best things come in small packages.
03/10/2011: Red sky at night, shephard's delight; red sky in the morning, shephard's warning.
04/10/2011: Don't cry before you're hurt.
05/10/2011: Let sleeping dogs lie.
06/10/2011: Everyone speaks well of the bridge which carries him over.
07/10/2011: Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
08/10/2011: One man's meat is another man's poison.
09/10/2011: The greater the sinner, the greater the saint.
10/10/2011: Nothing succeeds like success.
11/10/2011: You win a few, you lose a few.
12/10/2011: A stream cannot rise above its source.
13/10/2011: The eyes are the window of the soul.
14/10/2011: Shrouds have no pockets.
15/10/2011: Why should the devil have all the best tunes?
16/10/2011: Keep your shop and your shop will keep you.
17/10/2011: Actions speak louder than words.
18/10/2011: Love begets love.
19/10/2011: An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
20/10/2011: Much would have more.
21/10/2011: Better be envied than pitied.
22/10/2011: A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.
23/10/2011: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
24/10/2011: Young folks think old folks to be fools, but old folks know young folks to be fools.
25/10/2011: Empty vessels make the most sound.
26/10/2011: Many a true word is spoken in jest.
27/10/2011: Nothing should be done in haste but gripping a flea.
28/10/2011: Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
29/10/2011: Once bitten, twice shy.
30/10/2011: Never do evil that good may come of it.
31/10/2011: He that has an ill name is half hanged.
01/11/2011: Wilful waste makes woeful want.
02/11/2011: Old sins cast long shadows.
03/11/2011: Cold hands, warm hearts [sic].
04/11/2011: Prevention is better than cure.
05/11/2011: Many go out for wool and come home shorn.
06/11/2011: There are no birds in last year's nest.
07/11/2011: When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.
08/11/2011: An old poacher makes the best gamekeeper.
09/11/2011: Today you; tomorrow me.
10/11/2011: You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy.
11/11/2011: The darkest hour is just before dawn.
12/11/2011: There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
13/11/2011: Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.
14/11/2011: Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
15/11/2011: If you can't ride two horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus.
16/11/2011: The eye of a master does more work than both his hands.
17/11/2011: More people know Tom Fool than Tom Fool knows.
18/11/2011: One good turn deserves another.
19/11/2011: The more you stir it the worse it stinks.
20/11/2011: Why buy a cow when milk is so cheap?
21/11/2011: Birds of a feather flock together.
22/11/2011: Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
23/11/2011: Pride goes before a fall.
24/11/2011: Diligence is the mother of good luck.
25/11/2011: Fools ask questions that wise men cannot answer.
26/11/2011: Discretion is the better part of valour. --- Shakespeare
27/11/2011: Many hands make light work.
28/11/2011: Light come, light go.
29/11/2011: The tongue always returns to the sore tooth.
30/11/2011: One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
01/12/2011: Do right and fear no man.
02/12/2011: There is a time and place for everything.
03/12/2011: Never let the sun go down on your anger.
04/12/2011: Practise what you preach.
05/12/2011: Dirty water will quench fire.
06/12/2011: Dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.
07/12/2011: A man is known by the company he keeps.
08/12/2011: Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.
09/12/2011: One does not wash one's dirty linen in public.
10/12/2011: Nothing so bad but it might have been worse.
11/12/2011: Out of fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.
12/12/2011: There is a remedy for everything except death.
13/12/2011: It is easy to be wise after the event.
14/12/2011: What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
15/12/2011: One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after.
16/12/2011: Think first and speak afterwards.
17/12/2011: Wonders will never cease.
18/12/2011: The sea refuses no river.
19/12/2011: Moderation in all things.
20/12/2011: Attack is the best form of defense.
21/12/2011: If it were not for hope, the heart would break.
22/12/2011: Strike while the iron is hot.
23/12/2011: The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love.
24/12/2011: The devil makes his Christmas pies of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.
25/12/2011: One seed for the mouse, one for the cow, one to rot, one to grow.
26/12/2011: Confession is good for the soul.
27/12/2011: Every cloud has a silver lining.
28/12/2011: Experience is the father of wisdom.
29/12/2011: The end crowns the work.
30/12/2011: Little birds that can sing and won't sing must be made to sing.
31/12/2011: The difficult is done at once, the impossible takes a little longer.
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