A grade school teacher presented each child in her classroom with the first half of a well-known proverb, and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb.
Their responses follow:
1. Don't change horses
-- until they stop running.
2. Strike while the
-- bug is close.
3. It's always darkest before
-- Daylight Saving Time.
4. Never underestimate the power of
-- termites.
5. You can lead a horse to water but
-- How?
6. Don't bite the hand that
-- looks dirty.
7. No news is
-- impossible
8. A miss is as good as a
-- Mr.
9. You can't teach an old dog new
-- Math
10. If you lie down with dogs, you'll
-- stink in the morning.
11. The pen is mightier than the
-- pigs.
12. An idle mind is
-- the best way to relax.
13. Where there's smoke there's
-- pollution.
14. A penny saved is
-- not much.
15. Two's company, three's
-- the Musketeers.
16. Don't put off till tomorrow what
-- you put on to go to bed.
17. Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and
-- You have to blow your nose.
18. If at first you don't succeed
-- get new batteries.
19. You get out of something only what you
-- See in the picture on the box
20. A bird in the hand
-- is going to poop on you.
#18 has never failed me
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