"Folded like a cheap camera" and "you sound like a broken record". The under 30 crowd doesn't even know what a record is.

"You sound like a broken MP3 player (or iPod)" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

If you wanna dance, you gotta pay the fiddler.

Remember "He who pays the piper, calls the tune"? Was a long time before I could not only understand the comment, but also pay the piper. Fortunately over time I learned that I was the piper and the tune caller and life really got fun!


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"You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

"A stich in time saves nine"

You can't spit at the heavens without them spitting back"

"That dog won't hunt."

"it depends on whose ox is being gorged."

There are starving children in Africa

I remember an old expression that is gratefully dead and gone:

"Children should be seen and not heard."

Thankfully, my parents never said that-- or saw it that way!

Thought of another one
 

Reap what you sow.

Your wife made you post that one....didn't she?

Oh, oh, oh...
 

What goes around comes around.

Or is that expression still around?

Farmer Grandma: "You'll eat a bushel of dirt before you die."

Saving money
 

It is not how much money you make, it is how much money you keep.

Penny earned, is a penny saved.