Maxims

A first grade teacher collected old, well known maxims. She gave each child in her class the first half of a maxim, and had them come up with the rest. Here are the results:

As you shall make your bed, so shall you ---- mess it up.

Better be safe than ---- punch a fifth grader.

Strike while the ---- bug is close.

It is 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 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.

There is no fool like ---- Aunt Eddie.