The following are the results of an assignment that a junior

school teacher gave her class. She gave them the first half of

traditional, well-known proverbs and asked the kids to complete

them.

Below are the proverbs the kids created.

If you can't stand the heat ...        get a pool.

Don't count your chickens ...       eat them.

A watched pot never...           disappears.

Too many cooks...                so few meals.

A Miss is as good as a ....      Mister.

Look before you...             run into a pole.

As you shall make your bed so shall you...      mess it up.

People in glass houses shouldn't . . .       run around naked.

Better to be safe than...         punch a 5th grader.

Strike while the...                   bug is close.

It's always darkest before...  daylight savings time.

Never underestimate the power of...       termites.

You can lead a horse to water but...      how?

Don't bite the hand that...         looks dirty.

No news is...        impossible.

You can't teach an old dog new...       math.

If you lie down with the dogs, you'll...       stink in the morning.

Love all, trust...     me.

The pen is mightier than the...       pigs.

An idle mind is...          the best way to relax.

Where there's smoke, there's...      pollution.

Happy the bride who...          gets all the presents!

A penny saved is...        not much.

Two's company, three's...        the Musketeers.

Don't put off tomorrow what...       you put on to go to bed.

Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and...       you have to

blow your nose.

None are so blind as...       Helen Keller.

Children should be seen and not...       spanked.

If at first you don't succeed...         get new batteries.

You get out of something what you...      see pictured on the box.

When the blind leadeth the blind...        get out of the way.

There is no fool like...       Aunt Eddie.

Source: "The Mammouth Book of Humor"

by Geoff Tidballs

Carroll & Graff Publishers, Inc. © 2000

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