Grade School Proverbs
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A first grade teacher collected well-known proverbs.  She gave each child in her class the first half of a proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder.  Their insight may surprise you.
  • 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 
  • A miss is as good as a..............  Mr.
  • You can't teach an old dog new......math 
  • If you lie down with 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 till 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 or grounded 
  • 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