The Book of Old Sayings with Some New Sayings: Over 4,000 Sayings Will Leave You with Curiosity, Laughter & Wisdom “Don’T Judge a Book by Its Cover”

By Muneer H. Waheed

As a student of philosophy, I took interest in it. History was also a favorite study. I was an A student in English. I liked to read and write. Creative writing was fun to do. Over the years, as I traveled and worked on ships and construction sites, I developed my manhood, you might say. I matured around men who talked filthy, played the dozen, and told a lot of jokes. Of course, I was influenced by some of this. I picked up on a lot of jokes and old sayings, mostly from older men. Throughout the years, I had remembered quite a few. My friends used to call me a philosopher. I had a saying for everything. Over the years, I realized everyone had picked up their share of sayings as well. I started writing them down because they were so many I couldnt remember them. Then I realized the wisdom in them and came up with the idea to put them in a book form for reference. I felt that some could read this book and be educated by all the wisdom. Where else could you find a collection of so many sayings that will leave you with curiosity, laughter, and wisdom?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 28, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543462692

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Copyright © 2017 by Muneer H. Waheed.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2017916776

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

To my creator, my source of inspiration, whom i was guided

To my beloved mother, who gave me birth

To my dear wife, who gave her loving support

To my children, to whom i dedicate my all

To my friends for their support, and encouragement

To my agent whose direction, and wisdom i rely on

To my editor, my son for his deligent work

To my publisher who gave me the opportunity as a new writer.

This book is not to be taken out of context or to be missunderstood. It is not intended to be vulgar or to depict any thing evil or should i say negative. At the same it is a reality that should not be ignored due to its common use. Changing the word may change the meaning as well as its impact. The main thing i suggest is that you focus on the meaning.

I had no intentions on revealing the sources, who said it, or the date that it orginated. That would take a lot more time and research. I’m more concerned here with the meaning, or the message in the saying. Nor do i want to explain what the saying’s mean. I want the reader to use his or her mind to understand them. Like a joke, it’s not funny if you have to explain it.

PREFACE

As we grow older we grow wiser

How many times a day when we speak, do we use old sayings to communicate or to get our point across to someone? How many times a day, do we hear other people using them to communicate or to get their point across to us? Just in everyday conversation, there’s not a day that goes by that this doesn’t occur. It’s big in avertisment and sales.

These sayings remain in our subconcious for years. We used them over and over randomly. Some we learn from our parents, friends, relatives, co-workers, tv, and books. Some we learn from people we don’t even know. Some we make up ourselves and be known for saying such, rather it made sense or not. Unconciously when we’re communicating we’re constantly using them and constantly picking them up. The power that these sayings have is awakening. The realization, the truth, the knowledge, and the wisdom we receive from them are astonishing. The humor in some of these sayings will make you laugh and then comes the wisdom. The curosity allows you to think, to imagaine, to use your own experiences, and ablilties to seek their true meaning.

This book’s intention is to bring all these sayings together collectively to be used as a reference. To give some meaning and understanding to those who don’t know. To be a form of education from the interpretations of the wisdom that’s in the book. To create growth and development in the minds.

OLD SAYING’S

1. Starving like marvin & begging like reagan

2. Loose as a goose

3. Chillin like a villain

4. Timothy toddy all ass and no body

5. Fallin like dominoes

6. Did you see the shitter on that critter?

7. How much wrong can i do and still go to heaven?

8. Dying aint no way to make a living

9. No sense in crying over spilled milk

10. Stop staring; take a picture it will last longer

11. Aint over unitil the fat lady sings

12. I rather hear a fat boy fart, rather than a choir girl sing

13. Two tons of fun

14. Less is more

15. He who laughs first, laughs last

16. You don’t miss your water until your well runs dry

17. When the bottle is shook, whats on top will go to the bottom, and whats on the bottom will come to the top

18. The good, the bad, and the ugly

19. The good has to suffer with the bad

20. Two peas in the pot

21. Dark as night

22. I didn’t hear you because my eyes were shut/closed

23. Stop the world i want to get off

24. Don’t show your color

25. Its your world, im just a squirrel in it looking for a nut

26. Nuttier than a fruit cake

27. Yipe, stripes

28. Shake it don’t break it, it takes nine months to make it

29. It takes two to tangle

30. Two’s company three’s a crowd

31. Hotter that a firecracker

32. Hotter than july

33. Be careful what you ask for it might come true

34. If you’re big engouh to throw a punch than your big engouh to take a punch

35. You have a face only a mother can love

36. Shes so ugly she looks cute

37. So fast make your head spin around

38. Smile, you’ll look better

39. I don’t care if i die, just as long as my juice fly

40. Nothing left but, the shoes to identify the body

41. Like a turkey gobbling through the corn

42. Too good to be true

43. Who died and made you god

44. Now you see me now you don’t

45. If you don’t know, now you know

46. If you feeling froggy, jump

47. Don’t cut off the hand that feeds you

48. The bigger the headache the bigger the pill

49. Take one to know one

50. Sticks and stones may break my bones but, words will never hurt me

51. Sticks and stones may break my bones but, whips and chains will make me kinky

52. Im rubber, your glue, what ever you say bounce off me, and sticks on you

53. Hay’s for horses / i’m big enough to eat oats

54. Talk is cheap

55. Don’t let your mouth write a check your ass can’t cash

56. Crusing for a bruizing

57. Snug like a bug in the rug

58. Let the money meet the merchandise

59. Put the money where your mouth is

60. Don’t make promises you can’t keep

61. I may be dumb but, im not stupid

62. Its not who you know, its who you blow

63. It not who you meet but, who you eat

64. Be careful who you deal with on the way up because, you might have to deal with them on the way down

65. He who feels it, knows it

66. Good guys die young

67. You put your foot in your mouth

68. If the shoe fit, wear it

69. The strong may overwhelm the weak, but the smart overwhelm’s the strong

70. No pain no gain

71. Seeing is beleiving

72. Break a leg

73. Hurt so bad but, feel so good

74. All is fair in love and war

75. Still standing

76. Practice makes perfect

77. Even stevens

78. Always room for improvement

79. Why is there always time to do it right the second time but, never engouh time to do it right the first time

80. Tall dark and handsome

81. You shouldn’t throw stones if you live in a glass house

82. An expert is one who makes a lot of mistakes and finally gets it right

83. Try it you might like it

84. Out of sight out of mind

85. Struggling for a hustle

86. There could be no succsess without a struggle

87. Your going to work yourself out of a job

88. It is what it is

89. Don’t put off tomorrow what you can do today

90. Happyness is not having what you want but, wanting what you have

91. The bigger they are the harder they fall

92. The fruit don’t fall far from the tree

93. The darker the berry the sweeter the juice

94. Once you go black, you’ll never go back

95. A journey begins with the first step

96. You’ll have to crawl before you walk

97. Quick, fast, and in a hurry

98. Sky’s the limit

99. Bigger than life

100. People like you never die

101. Those who say don’t know, and those who know won’t say

102. Why do i have to be the last to know?

103. Too close for comfort

104. Home sweet home

105. Ole, kill joy

106. Party pooper

107. Cock blocker

108. King of the hill

109. These kids tear up everything, they’ii even tear jesus off the cross

110. Grandma slow but she’s old

111. Slow as molasses

112. Old as methusselah

113. Talk what you know, not what you think

114. Kiss me where the sun don’t shine

115. Bridge over trouble waters

116. Too pooped to pop

117. Dressed to kill

118. If looks could kill

119. Look with your eyes not with your hands

120. Crazy as a road lizard

121. The first day of the rest of your life

122. Too hot too handle

123. Too many cooks for the soup

124. The grass is greener on the other side