Out in
the Manner of the Kilkenny Cats.

A proverb is defined in one of the more popular dictionaries of our
language as "a brief, pithy saying, condensing in witty or striking form
the wisdom of experience."

But experiences vary and often lead to different results, so that of
proverbs it may be said that "what is one man's meat is another man's
poison." It is as futile for a man to live his life in accordance with
proverbs as it is for twenty cooks to collaborate in the making of a broth
that will please the palates of all.

The truth is, proverbs are just as likely to disagree as are physicians.
Here are a few that have agreed to disagree:

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

_A formal fool speaks naught but proverbs._

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Education forms the man.

_By education most have been misled._

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Everything comes to him who waits.

_He who would find must seek._

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Better a patch than a hole.

_A true gentleman would rather have his clothes torn than
mended._

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Patience surpasses learning.

_Patience is the virtue of asses._

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No wickedness has any ground of reason.

_Success makes some crimes honorable._

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He who hunts two hares at once will catch neither.

_It is always good to have two irons in the fire._

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Never spur a willing horse.

_A good horse and a bad horse both need the spur._

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The middle path is the safe path.

_The neutral is soused from above, and singed from below._

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Many hands make light work.

_Too many cooks spoil the broth._

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As ye sow, so shall ye reap.

_The seed you sow, another reaps._

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Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

_Nothing venture, nothing have._

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It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

_Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune._

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The wise man has a short tongue.

_Silence