Proverbs To Live By
A first grade teacher collected well known proverbs. She gave each child in her class the first half of a proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb. Their insight may surprise you.
- Better to be safe than....................Punch a 5th grader
- Strike while the .........................Bug is close
- It's always darkest before............... Daylight Savings Time
- Never underestimate the power of..........Termites
- You can lead a horse to water but........how?
- Don't bite the hand that................. looks dirty
- No news is................................impossible
- A miss is as good as a.....................Mr..
- You can't teach an old dog new............math
- If you lie down with dogs, you'll.........stink in the morning
- Love all, trust..........................me
- The pen is mightier than the..............pigs
- An idle mind is..........................The best way to relax
- Where there's smoke there's...............pollution
- Happy the bride who.......................gets all the presents
- A penny saved is..........................not much
- Two's company, three's....................the Musketeers
- Don't put off till tomorrow what..........you put on to go to bed
- Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and.......you have to blow your nose
- None are so blind as.....................Stevie Wonder
- Children should be seen and not...........spanked or grounded
- If at first you don't succeed.............get new batteries
- You get out of something what you.........see pictured on the box
- When the blind leadeth the blind..........get out of the way
And the favorite...
- Better late than..........................pregnant