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  Punny Proverbs - funny proverbs by Australian poet Graeme King - funny poems, sad poems, serious poems and romantic poems. Poems for children, nature poems and environment poems, flash poetry, fantasy poems, funny limericks and more ©kingpoetry2008.
 

PUNNY PROVERBS

I thought I'd try and modernise a few old proverbs...

SAID BY: An apiarist
To bee or not to bee...

SAID BY: A throat specialist
My kingdom for a hoarse...

SAID BY: A salesman in a 1910 airplane parts store
The customer is always Wright...

SAID BY: An outhouse shitcarter
Many pans make night work...

SAID BY: A starving budgerigar
If at first you don't suck seeds, try, try a grain...

SAID BY: A divorce lawyer
Don't put all you ex in one basket...

SAID BY: A sensitive herb harvester
Thyme feels all wounds...

SAID BY: A police informant
There's many a tip twixt the cop and the lip...

SAID BY: An unemployed alcoholic
Drink is the cause of the shirking man...

SAID BY: A fallen Fijian king
People in grass houses shouldn't blow thrones...

SAID BY: A fruit shop owner to his son
Neither a barrower nor a vendor be...

SAID BY: A failed builder
A good tradesman never names his fools...

SAID BY: An experienced pan-handler
Don't put all your begs in one ask it...

SAID BY: The hunting lodge owner to a new employee
Look after the ponies and the hounds will look after themselves...

SAID BY: A ghost baby nutritionist
A ghoul and his tummy are spoon started...

SAID BY: A job interviewer, after getting a bribe
Never send a toy to woo a man's job...

SAID BY: A police informant
A snitch in time saves crime...

SAID BY: A sales supervisor at a marine chandlery
Head men sell no sails...

SAID BY: A watchmaker after a temper tantrum
Never rile at a clock or dial...

 

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