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Old 08-15-2006, 05:31 PM   #101
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...hit my mother-in-law. Darn.

If at first you don't succeed....
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[quote=IHateMrPotatoheadIf at first you don't succeed....[/QUOTE]

... make lemonade.

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One picture is worth ...

...its cover


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...grow fonder

A chain is no stronger...
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...than the sword.

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When in Rome....
...don't forget to send postcards.


The pen is...
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Old 08-15-2006, 07:50 PM   #107
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...a better soldier than rashness.


Idle hands are the. . .
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Old 08-15-2006, 07:55 PM   #108
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...ones sitting in people's laps.

Absence makes the heart...
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Old 08-16-2006, 12:54 AM   #109
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annoyed.

It is better to have loved and lost
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Old 08-16-2006, 12:55 AM   #110
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... then to have loved and gotten married.

Every cloud...
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Old 08-16-2006, 01:01 AM   #111
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is to her faults a little blind.

Little said is best...
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Old 08-16-2006, 04:18 AM   #112
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Little said is best...
...served cold.

A coward dies a thousand deaths...
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Old 08-16-2006, 04:19 AM   #113
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I don't see a rule specifying that the proverb must be completed with the tale end of some other proverb. You finish as you feel it should be finished.
Dude, it WAS my idea after all.

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Old 08-16-2006, 04:27 AM   #114
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Dude, it WAS my idea after all.
Actually, it was oiuyts idea.
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A coward dies a thousand deaths...
But the Lord sees the fall of a sparrow...

Better to fly with the eagles....
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Better to fly with the eagles....
...than to never have loved.


A bird in the hand...
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A bird in the hand...
makes a tasty treat.

Once bitten...

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Once bitten...
...twice going to the Doctors for a rabies shot.


Do not cross the river...
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...twice going to the Doctors for a rabies shot.


Do not cross the river...
cuase that really makes ther river angry, and you wouldnt like the river when it's angry!

Give a man a fish...

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You do not read the forums obsessively---er, I mean, thoroughly enough, my dear:

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