Adages and Axioms

--- Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never harm you---small consolation indeed when you’re lying in traction in the hospital.

--- You can lead a horse to water, but just try to get him to do the backstroke.

--- A fool and his money soon form a company.

--- Fool me one, shame on you; fool me twice—well, ya got me again!!

--- A penny saved usually is forgotten and becomes tangled in lint, along with a 6-cent stamp.

--- A house divided against itself is probably a double-wide.

--- A job slowly done is often short-lived employment.

--- He also serves, who sits with the waitress.

--- A dog’s bark may be worse than his bite, unless you require 12 stitches and rabies shots.

--- Giving a saucy goose is much better than just getting a gander.