Do you believe certain sayings?

[quote]Spoil the ship for the want of a haporth of tar[/quote]
The idea that if you make too many concessions due to expense what you end up with will be useless anyway

I sure do believe in that one. Also talk is cheap

@SW-User There's a lot of stuff from that period in history.
I wonder if that's because the written word was becoming more available to a wider audience ?
Or whether Shakespeare; Marlowe; Webster; Johnson et al was a seriously golden era for work produced at the time ?

[quote]A watched pot never boils[/quote]

I truly believe what Dan (the potato with an e guy) Quayle said - - "Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."

When people treat you like they don't care, believe them.


People don't abandon people they love, they abandon people they were using

"The hit dog will holler", which comes from the idea of tossing a pebble into a group of dogs, with the one that’s hit yelping.

Used to mean that the person becoming offended by a general statement is the one for whom it’s likely true.