<p>Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.</p>
<p>A penny saved… is still a penny.</p>
<p>A stitch in time …makes absolutely no sense whatsover. </p>
<p>I taught these (and others) to DD early on along with my version of classic nursery rhymes. 
Gosh, young minds are sooo impressionable.</p>
<p>TheDad:</p>
<p>I’m going to share this bit of wisdom with my friend at Oxfam for whom this is a mantra.</p>
<p>Curm: Obviously, you’ve never had to mend socks. A stitch in time does save having to deal with a big hole 
As for a penny saved… My S’s collection threatens to sink the house.</p>
<p>Mending socks? You mean they are supposed to be mended? I thought when the hole at the toe end became so large that your foot slipped right on through you bought another pair. Are there “sock repair” stores? Is there an on-line course at that Sally Struthers Correspondence School I can take?</p>
<p>The Vulcun mind-meld with work!!! No, Call Me!! No wait Email Me!! No Text Me!!! No, IM Me!!</p>
<p>Time is Money, except in some physics theories that say time is negligible, in which case money would also be negligible…which is why there aren’t many physicists</p>
<p>Curm:</p>
<p>The sock repair store has gone out of business. But it used to be called Dear Ole Mom. Darning socks has given way to “Darn socks!”</p>
<p>For your edification, my fancy French education included learning to sew and do fine embroidery.</p>
<p>Actually, theDad, you got it wrong. It’s “Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and you can sell him fishing gear for the rest of his life.”</p>
<p>You can lead a horse to water…but it’s a lot easier to just hose him down.</p>
<p>Familiarity breeds.</p>
<p>Time wounds all heals.</p>
<p>All the news that fits or (at Florida Institute of Technology) all the news that’s FIT.</p>
<p>If it ain’t one thing its your mother.</p>
<p>Would the defintion of irony be the Tulane Crew team winning the NCAA title?</p>
<p>"“Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish without ensuring that the river is clean and that it isn’t overfished, and he’ll starve to death in three days. If he doesn’t he’ll hate you for the rest of his life.”</p>
<p>“Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, drown him and he will never be hungry again.”</p>