Adage Enthusiast Gifts

'Is it starve a cold and feed a fever...or feed a cold and starve a fever?'

Adage: 'The person who is certain he is right is certain to be wrong.'

"By now, you've probably noticed that around here, money talks and you-know-what walks!"

"Good" "Bad" "Work on it" "Keep working - maybe it's not as bad as you think it is" "Put it to a committee" "Give up" "Make it worse" "Make it better" "Still a bad idea" "Overthink it" "Throw yourself into a pit of wild badgers" "Throw it away" "Call it done" "Sigh."

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

Washington D.C., Acronym Capital of the World

"Well, if you're still awake when the time changes, you'll lose an hour of overthinking everything, too."

'In general, do the right thing.'

'Why do they call him Neckline Ned.' - 'He's always plunging down the middle but never showing anything.'

"This may be Malcolm Gladwell talking, but we were married on the wrong day!"

"I've been reading a book of famous quotations. It's amazing how many are by a famous Greek named Anonymous."

'The kids want a new motto: instead of 'slow but sure' they've come up with 'fast and funky'.'

"Are you the one they call El Cóndor?"

"No, I want to know the meaning of never calling your mother."

"Tia Carmen, did you ever wish summer was over...so you could be in school?"

'Quotes, woof, woof, woof, woof, closed quotes.'

Frog Prince thinks: 'A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horsefly.'

'Lance, what does 'NSFW' stand for?'

"If you see this as motherly advice, we have a whole new subject to explore."

'Have you considered getting a life-coach?'

'You failed your Latin exam! But Sweety, it's important to learn Latin: All your friends' names have Latin roots...'

"Wait ... I always thought taking each other for granted was a good thing!"

'Then again, who says we can't call it a mangelwurzel?'

'I know you can make this project go. That's why I call you 'The Magic Motor'.'

His real name is Jasper Underwood Farthington III...but we just call him 'Stinky'.

'That's it agreed then - the company's new motto is going to be 'We didn't do anything illegal'.'

Department of Unrealistic Dividend Earnings: 'We realize it is an unnecessary department but the acronym was just too cool to shut it down.'

'I inherited therefore I am'

'You feel awkward? You're the one who said we ought to hunt bare.'

'The secret to staying in business, Wilson, is making something that's needed. Profit!'

"We should take life one step at a time." "OK, but not right now...there's some dogs do-do right in front of us!"

"She introduces herself as Drosophila Melanogaster, but everyone knows she's just a common fruit fly."

"There's someone here who says she has a word to the wise. Do we have anyone like that?"

'For the sake of convenience everybody just calls me Joe.'

Could you be a little bit more specific than an 'arm and a leg'?