Proverbs which also work the other way around

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1. People in stone houses shouldn't throw glass.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

2. Many a muckle makes a mickle

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

3. Don't put all your baskets in one egg.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

4. You can take a drink of water but you can't make it a horse

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

More speed, less haste.

xpost Chew, that's the original isn't it?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

6. A master of all trades is jack of none.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

7. Those who teach, can.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

8. Never buy a poke in a pig.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

7. A bush in two hands is worth one in the bird.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

Trayce - I love you for that.

― Rumpie, Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

7. A bush in the hand is worth two in the bird.

(x-post: Steve, the advert twists the original, which said those who can't ...)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

10(?). After the calm comes a storm.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

11. Don't feed the hand that bites you.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

12. a nine in time saves stiches.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

13. he who laughs longest laughs last.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

14. No island is a man.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

15. i can't make my heart into a face

― heart, Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

16. Stones and hurt may break my words, but sticks will never bone me.

Erm.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

Many a jest word spoken in truth.

Evil is the root of all money

Never speak dead of the ill

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

20. While there's hope, there's life.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

21. You can't make a sow's ear out of a silk purse.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

22. Never look a horse in the gift mouth.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

23. You can't teach eggs to suck grandpa.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

Stones and hurt may break my words, but sticks will never bone me.

classic!

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

*spits water all over keyboard* xpost

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

24. The male of the species is more deadly than the female.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

"in the name of the punish, i will moon you!"

er, not exactly a proverb, but worth mentioning, i think.

― g-clit (g-kit), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

motherdropper's gonna fuck the pressure

cock hands, big big

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

28. Time wounds all heels.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

29. Don't teach eggs to suck your grandmother

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

##. warm hands, cold heart.

― g-spot (g-kit), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

32. Do not Troll the Feed.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

hahaha excellent

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

(28 is by Nick Lowe)

33. You don't stoke the fire while you're looking at the Mantelpiece.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

34. Don't doorstep your own shit.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

35. Let lying dogs sleep.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

36. Rain Man is not troubled by drowning

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

37. Better never than late

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

38. The cat killed curiosity

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

39. Do not use a fly to remove a hatchert from your friend's forehead.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

40. A stitch in nine saves time!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

41. You can't get a stone from blood

― Sym Sym (sym), Friday, 25 November 2005 04:11 (twenty years ago)

Don't eat where you shit.

― Elemen O'Penis, Friday, 25 November 2005 04:20 (twenty years ago)

That's like teaching an egg to suck your grandmother.

― moley (moley), Friday, 25 November 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

Third times a charm!

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 25 November 2005 04:37 (twenty years ago)

Charm time's a third!

― Cockbag, Friday, 25 November 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

Man needs a woman like a bicycle needs a fish

― stet (stet), Friday, 25 November 2005 05:00 (twenty years ago)

I need a blowjob like I need another head in the hole. ;-)

― Cockbag, Friday, 25 November 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

All's well that ends well.*

*I swapped around the wells.

― moley (moley), Friday, 25 November 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)

terrific work moley!

― estela (estela), Friday, 25 November 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

You can't teach a new dog old tricks.

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Friday, 25 November 2005 05:16 (twenty years ago)

Too many broths spoil the cook
Fondness makes the heart grow absent
The love of evil is the root of all money.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 November 2005 05:18 (twenty years ago)

Out of the fire and into the frying pan

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Friday, 25 November 2005 05:18 (twenty years ago)

Never book a judge by his cover.

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Friday, 25 November 2005 05:20 (twenty years ago)

Man makes the clothes.

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Friday, 25 November 2005 05:22 (twenty years ago)

Fire while the strike is hot

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Friday, 25 November 2005 05:25 (twenty years ago)

break a back, step on your mama's crack.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 25 November 2005 05:42 (twenty years ago)

Health, wealth and wisdom, makes a man early to bed and early to rise

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 25 November 2005 05:48 (twenty years ago)

Roaming while the fiddle burns

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 25 November 2005 09:07 (twenty years ago)

You can't break an omlette without making some eggs.

(Wow, I have no idea how to spell omlette. I was going to type omoilette, which is way wrong. But what is it?)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 25 November 2005 09:12 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

You can't see the trees for the forest.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

Who wins dares.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

One has to try nothing but incest and Morris Dancing.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

a woman needs a fish like a man needs a bicycle

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

If you can't time the do, crime the do don't.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

* Better sorry than safe.
* Leap before you look.
* Bliss is ignorance.
* He who is lost hesitates.
* Don't throw the bathwater out with the baby.
* There's no taste for accounting.
* The bigger they fall, the harder they come.
* To forgive is human, to err divine.
* Fiction is stranger than truth.
* The free things in life are best.
* Poets are made, not born.
* Preach what you practice.
* A doctor a day keeps the apple away.

― Jamie Poskin (042684), Saturday, 19 August 2006 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

Two rights do not make a wrong.
First served, first come.

― slugbuggy (slugbuggy), Saturday, 19 August 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

13. he who laughs longest laughs last.

-- hobart paving (elvistear...), November 24th, 2005.

This is the best so far (TVL's 'sticks will never bone me' notwithstanding) insofar as it actually works as a different proverb.

My own contribution: "O, don't catch your chickens before they're hunted"

― Scourage (Haberdager), Sunday, 20 August 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Virtue is a patience.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 20 August 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

Virtue is an abstinence.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Sunday, 20 August 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Invention is the mother of necessity.
Only the young die good.
You never forget an elephant.

― slugbuggy (slugbuggy), Sunday, 20 August 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Watch out, pot gives you boils

― Scourage (Haberdager), Sunday, 20 August 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, that would have worked better in the imperative:

Never forget an elephant.

― slugbuggy (slugbuggy), Sunday, 20 August 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I preferred the first one! It was as if one might have some unfortunate encounter with an elephant early on in your life, leaving an irremovable scar on your memory. It was a very quaint thought.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Sunday, 20 August 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I think you're right. I meant that the second one only involved changing the word order and not having to add any other words.

The first one also seems to be saying that while it's easy to forget your wallet or keys, it's damn near impossible to forget your elephant for obvious reasons.

― slugbuggy (slugbuggy), Sunday, 20 August 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

Gold is silent. It's true!

― slugbuggy (slugbuggy), Sunday, 20 August 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

early worm catches the bird

― nico van der watt (nicovdwat), Monday, 21 August 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

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