The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #168706   Message #4075345
Posted By: Steve Shaw
13-Oct-20 - 05:22 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: modern proverb
Subject: RE: Folklore: modern proverb
The real genius was the man who invented the second telephone.

Illegitimes non carborundum (Don't let the b*ast*ards grind you down).

One man's fish is another man's poisson.

Give a man a bucket of coal and you keep him warm for the night. Set a man on fire and you keep him warm for the rest of his life.