Common Saying

When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

As you make your bed, so must you lie in it.

When the cat's away, the mice will play.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

All good things must come to an end.

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

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.

Early to bed and early to rise, make a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Every dog has his day.

Experience is the mother of wisdom.

Fear of death is worse than death itself.

He that is master of himself, will soon be master of others.

When in doubt, do nothing.

Common sense ain't common.

Old habits die hard.

I don't understand you.

You don't understand me.

What else do we have in common.

There's no smoke without fire.

If its not broken, don't fix it.

Where there's a will there's a way.

When all else fails, read the instructions.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Funny cop sayings

"Relax; the handcuffs are tight because they're new. They'll stretch out after you wear them awhile."

"Take your hands off the car, and I'll make your birth certificate a worthless document."

"If you run, you'll only go to jail tired."

"Can you run faster than 1,200 feet per second? In case you didn't know, that is the average speed of a 9 mm bullet fired from my gun."

"So you don't know how fast you were going. I guess that means I can write anything I want on the ticket, huh?"

"Yes, Sir, you can talk to the shift supervisor, but I don't think it will help. Oh ... did I mention that I am the shift supervisor?"

"Warning! You want a warning? O.K., I'm warning you not to do that again or I'll give you another ticket."

"The answer to this last question will determine whether you are drunk or not. Was Mickey Mouse a cat or a dog?"

"Fair? You want me to be fair? Listen, fair is a place where you go to ride on rides, eat cotton candy, and step in monkey poop."

"Yeah, we have a quota. Two more tickets and my wife gets a toaster oven."

"In God we trust, all others we run through NCIC."

"Just how big were those two beers?"

"No sir we don't have quotas anymore. We used to have quotas but now we're allowed to write as many tickets as we want."

"I'm glad to hear the Chief of Police is a good personal friend of yours. At least you know someone who can post your bail."

"You didn't think we give pretty women tickets? You're right, we don't.

Funny Mathematics

Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi

2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton

1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope

Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond

Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram

Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong

16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Sterling

Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon

1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz

Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower

Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line

453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake

1 million-million microphones = 1 megaphone

2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles

365.25 days = 1 unicycle

2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds

52 cards = 1 decacards

1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton

1000 milliliters of wet socks = 1 literhosen

1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche

1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin

10 rations = 1 decoration

100 rations = 1 C-ration

2 monograms = 1 diagram

2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV League

8 nickels = 2 paradigms

Genral Sayings(F-Z)

FALIURE
The only people, who never fail, are those who never try………..
-IIka Chase


FATHER-MOTHER
Listen to your father, who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother’s experience, when she is old…….. -The Bible
What the mother sings to the cradle, goes all the way down to the coffin……….
-Ibid


FRIENDS
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing………..
-Benjamin Franklin
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity……..
-Chilo


FUTURE
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them……….
-Dion Boucicault


HEALTH
Good health and good sense are two of life greatest blessing………….
-Publilius Syrus
Health is not valued till sickness comes……….
-Thomas Fuller


OPPORTUNITY
The sure way to miss success to miss is the opportunity………
-Philarate Chasles


PEOPLE
You can fool some of the people, all of time; and all the people, some of the time; but you cannot fool all of the people, all the time………
-Lincoln

PRAYER
The greatest prayer is patience………..
-Lord Buddha


PREJUDICE
Prejudice is the child of ignorance……………
-William Hazlitt


PROMISE
A promise made is debt unpaid……………..
-William Shakespeare


SELF-CONTROL
Those who can command themselves, command others……..
-William Hazlitt


SENSE
If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the father………..
-Jean Bruyere


SILENCE
If you want other to have a good opinion of you, say nothing……….
-Blaise Pascal
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute……..
-Henry Shaw


SOCIAL SERVICE
The work of an unknown Goodman is like a vein of water, flowing hidden underground, secretly making a ground greener……..
-Thomas Carlytle


SPEECH
Success is a public affair, failure is a private funeral………
-Rosalind Russell
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value…….
-Albert Einstein
The only place where success comes before work is the dictionary……..
-Vidal Sassoon
Six essential qualities that are the key to success; sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity……….
-William Menninger
Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction………
-Albernstein
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wakeup.
-Paul Valery

TENSION
The surgeon can cutout the ulcer, but he can’t cut out the tensions……….
-Dr. Alvarts
A heart attack is an attack on you is by you………….
-Dr. Hans Selye


TIME
A stitch in time saves nine………
-English Proverb


TOUNGE
The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high………
-Japanese Proverb


TROUBLE
Never trouble, trouble, till trouble troubles you……..
-American Proverb
It is easier to “keep out” of trouble than “get out” of trouble, most misery and trouble are caused by lack of wise thinking beforehand……….
-Richard W. Sampson


TRUTH
Truth and roses have thorns about them………
-Proverb
Bitter truth is better than sweet falsehood………
-African Proverb
Truth makes the face of that person shine, which speaks and owns it………
-Robert South


` WIFE
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife……….
-Benjamin Franklin
a virtuous woman is a crown to her husband………….
-Old Testament
a good wife and health is a man’s best wealth……………
-Proverb
A man’s best fortune, or worst, is a wife…………….
-Proverb


WISDOM
It is easier to be wise for other than for ourselves……….
-La Rochefoucauld


From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own……….
-Publilius Syrus


WOMAN
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
-La Martine
Woman is a salvation or the destruction of a family……..
-H.F. Amiel


WORDS
He, who does not know the force of words, cannot know men……….
-Confucius


WORKS
If one dose not loves work, one is always unhappy in life, in order to be truly happy in life, one must lave work……….
-The Mother


WORRY
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair………
-Persian Proverb


YOUTH
Forty is old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age………
-French Proverb

Genral Sayings(A-E)

Ability
Ability is poor man’s wealth……..
-M.Wren

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators………..
-Edward Gibbon

One good head is better than a hundred strong hands…..
-Thomas Fuller



Accountability
When a man point a finger at someone else, he should remember that four are pointing at himself……… -Louis Nizer


Actions
Think in the morning, act in the noon, eat in the evening, sleep in the night…….
-William stake

A barking dog is often more useful, than a sleeping lion……….
-W.Irving

Strong reason make strong action……..
-Shakespeare

Get good counsel before you begin, and when you have decided, act promptly…..
-sallust

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone…..
-Charles De Gaulle

Action may not always bring happine1ss, but there is no one happiness without action……
-Disraeli


Advice
Never give advice in a crowd……..
-Arabian Proverb

Never give advice unless asked…….
-German Proverb

Never advise anyone to go war or to marry……
-Spanish Proverb

Whatever advice you give, be short…….
-Horace

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties……
-Aesop

Timely advice is as lovely as golden apples in a silver basket…….
-Bible

The worst men often give the best advice……
-Philip James Bailey


AGE
In youth the days are short and the years are long; In old age the years are short and the days are long.
-Panin

Old Wood best to burn, old wines to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read…..
-Bacon

An old man is twice a child
-Shakespeare

A man is as old as he’s feeling, A woman as old she looks………
-Mortimer Collins

One should never trust a woman, who tells her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything………
` -Oscar Wilde

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age……..
-French Proverb

A young tree bends, an old tree breaks…..
- Yiddish Proverb


Anger
Anger is short madness, so control your passion or it will control you…..
-Horace

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes……..
-Cato

Never answer a letter while you are angry……..
-Chinese Proverb

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him……..
-Chinese Proverb


Argument
Argument is the worst sort of conversation……..
-Jonathan swift

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge, argument an exchange of ignorance…….
-Robert Quillen


Character
Character is what you are in the dark………
-Dwight L. Moody

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of it people, rather than the form of its government……..
-Thomas C. Halliburton


CHARITY
Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven……….
-Henry Ward Beecher

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much is rich…….
-Erich Fromm


COMMON SENSE
One proud of learning require ten pounds of common sense to apply it………
-Persian Proverb


CONSCIENCE
Conscience is God’s presence in man……….
-Swedenbrog

Conscience is the inner voice, which warns us someone may be looking…….
-H.L. Mencken


CONVERTATION
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play, then in a year of conversation………. -Plato


COURAGE
One must have the courage to say “NO”, even at the risk of displeasing others…………… -Fritz kunkel

Courage is a contagious, when a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened………… -Belly Graham

One man with courage makes a majority…………
-Andrew Jackson


COURTESY
Courtesy costs nothing, yet it pays bigger dividends to those, who possess it, than any other Exquisite……….. -High Clalmers


DEATH
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us, while we live………. -Norman cousins


DECISION
“NO” and “YES” are words quickly said, but they need amount of thought, before you utter them……… -Baltasar Greacian


DSIRE
What you can’t acquire, don’t desire…………..
-Yiddish Proverb


DIFFERENCE
Honest difference are often a healthy sign of progress…………
-Mahatma Gandhi


EUDUCATION
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet……….
-Aristotle


ENCOURAGMENT
The man, who says it cannot be done, should not interrupt the man doing it……..
-Chinese Proverb


EXPERIENCE
Experience is a hard teacher, the she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards……..
-Vernan Law