Recently, I was thinking about proverbs that were quoted often when I was younger. I did some brainstorming with relatives and this is what we came up with. Perhaps you can add some of your own.

• When in doubt, don’t.

• When the cats are away, the mice play.

• Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.

• Blessed are they that sew, for they shall rip.

• You can do whatever you want, if you want to badly enough.

• He who hesitates is lost.

• Good things come to those that wait.

• A stitch in time saves nine.

• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

• Still waters run deep.

• Haste makes waste.

• Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.

• Don’t cry over spilled milk.

• The pot should not call the kettle black.

• You can’t see the forest for the trees.

• Don’t trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.

• The hurrier I go the behinder I get.

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

• You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.

• One rotten apple will spoil the whole barrel.

• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

• Many hands make light work.

• Idle hands are the devil’s workshop.

• Don’t cross your bridges before you come to them.

• If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.

• Kill two birds with one stone.

• The best exercise in the world is pushing yourself away from the table.

• Don’t put off until tomorrow what can be done today.

       This is a poem grandma quoted to her children:

               Once a task is begun.
               Never leave it til its done.
               Be it large or be it small
               Do it well or not at all.          

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