It always irritates me when people actually base their actions/opinions on these little proverbs. My favourite conflict is "Too many cooks spoil the broth" vs "Many hands make light work"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Or "the more the merrier."

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My favorite is: "The squeaky wheel gets the grease" and "The duck that quacks loudest gets shot first"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I've never heard the Duck one. I'm going to start using it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You can still get what you paid for and not pay for the best things in life. I don't think those 2 are contradictory

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah you get things that aren't the best things in life.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And "The cat's got your tongue," "The cat's out of the bag" and "curiosity killed the cat." It all seems to have to do with secrets, but I can't fathom what the role of the cat is. Is it killed because it asked a secret? Is it the secret itself? Is it the thing keeping you from telling the secret?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I will never think about "curiosity killed the cat" without thinking quantum physics again... Since you didn't ask, Schrödinger's cat is a concept where you have a sealed box with a cat inside. There is a balloon filled with deadly poison gas, and the trigger is determined by the decay of a radioactive material. As soon as you close the box, the cat is both dead and alive, but when you observe by opening the box, one state must be assumed, therefore you may be killing the cat by observing it...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

O.o

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If you read enough physics journals, eventually you will just start thinking like that...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I believe it is "it is the man who makes the clothes, not the clothes that make the man".

by Anonymous 13 years ago

"Practice makes perfect" but "nobody's perfect"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

So why bother practicing?!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I remember this quote "Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellance" something like that

by Anonymous 13 years ago

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you'll land among the stars"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” -Vince Lombardi

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I like mine better haha

by Anonymous 13 years ago

l'habit ne fait pas le moine

by Anonymous 13 years ago

absence makes the heart grow fonder out of sight, out of mind

by Anonymous 13 years ago