New England Proverbs

* Art above, is by Carol Collette, whose work, hand colored etchings, I have always wanted to collect (at least one or two!). Check out her website for more of her New England images. (every month you can sign up to win a free print . ) I especially find her winter scenes serenely beautiful.*


"You can't keep trouble from coming, but you don't have to give it a chair to sit on."



"Small circumstances produce great events"



"Wishing isn't doing."



"The world is your cow. But you have to do the milking."



"It won't be warm till the snow gets off the mountain, and the snow won't get off the mountain till it gets warm."



"You can't always tell by the looks of a toad how far he can jump."



"Talk less and say more"



"He who feels the benefit should feel the burden."



"One today is worth two tomorrows."



"A good word now is worth ten on a headstone."



"A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple."



"The hardest work is to do nothing."



"Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves."



"Money is flat and meant to be piled."



"Cut your sail according to your cloth."



"In New England we have nine months of winter and three months of darned poor sledding."



"Take off your flannels before the first of May, and you'll have a doctor's bill to pay."



"Thick and blue, tried and true. Thin or crispy, way too risky." (proverb about the safety of ice)



"An ounce of experience is worth a pound of theory."



"The quickest way to do many things is to do one thing at a time."