What
are proverbs?
Every culture has a collection of
wise sayings that offer advice about how to live your life. These
sayings are called "proverbs".
"Two wrongs don't make a right."
But 4 lefts get you back to where you started where you
could then, make a right.
"The pen is mightier than the sword."
I decided to put this to the test. I grabbed a college
freshman with AP credit for English Composition, armed him with a pen, and put
him in a fight to the death cage match with a gifted swordsman certified from
the Association for Renaissance Martial Arts, armed with a San Martin Curved
Saber (shown below). The pen lost. Neeeeeeeeeeeeext!
"When in Rome, do as the Romans."
The romans engaged in some very heinous acts I choose not to
be a part of thank you very much.
"The squeaky wheel gets the grease."
Go ahead, grease that wheel and the next thing you know you
are a mechanic, working Saturdays at Midas doing oil changes and tire rotations
for next to nothing, which nets you a quick divorce which means you have to oil
more squeaky wheels which results in more shifts, another divorce, an alcohol
problem, you only eat anything drenched in Sriracha, and you pine for the days
of squeaky, oh so squeaky wheels.
"No man is an island."
Seems to me like Tom Hanks got pretty ripped when he was an
island.
"Fortune favors the bold."
And so do the Darwin awards.
"People who live in glass houses should not throw stones."
This is just stupid. Anyone with a glass house is obviously
loaded and wouldn’t have gravel in the house. There is probably a sweet mud
room not to mention a staff of servants to clean up. There won’t be any stones
to throw so what is the problem?
"Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst."
Who has time to hope when the bomb shelter needs finished?
"Better late than never."
As an ER surgeon, I can honestly say that this is not so. I’m
a great doctor but I need a pulse.
