Aphorisms R Us

Recently a first grade teacher who collects proverbs let her first graders fill in the second part of them. I got this from the blog Campanstan. I am not sure of its original source.

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

2. Strike while the............................bug is close.

3. It's always darkest before..................Daylight Saving Time.

4. Never underestimate the power of............termites.

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

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

7. No news is..................................impossible.

8. A miss is as good as a......................Mr.

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

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

11. Love all, trust.............................me.

12. The pen is mightier than the................pigs.

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

14. Where there's smoke there's.................pollution.

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

16. A penny saved is............................not much.

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

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

19. Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and.........you have to blow your nose.

20. There are none so blind as..................Stevie Wonder.

21. Children should be seen and not.............spanked or grounded.

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

23. You get out of something only what you...........see in the picture on the box.

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


25. Better late than............................pregnant.

I decided to have Naomi fill in the blanks too. She only knew the 'correct' answer to about three of them. Making inferences is her main weakness. Even if one never heard these before, one should be able to deduce the endings.
She and Dontae came over yesterday to do laundry. She allegedly did well on her big test but wasn't ready to study for the next test. She just wanted to chill.

I was a tired slug yesterday and pretty much accomplished nothing. Josh won a bet on the SuperBowl. Hate it when he bets although it is small potatoes compared to what his friends do. There are some scary genes hidden in his gene pool that I am afraid might surface. I will go out to lunch with him as he is taking the day off after his SuperBowl party.