Old solders never die; they just lose their flux.
----- Original Message -----
From: Pat Naughtin
To: U.S. Metric Association
Cc: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: 12 March, 2009 05:34
Subject: [USMA:43704] Proverbs
On 2009/03/12, at 7:48 AM, John Frewen-Lord wrote:
I contributed an article to the UK Metric Views website entitled 'User
Friendly' metric. Go to http://www.metricviews.org.uk/
Dear John,
I read and enjoyed your article and then looked up proverbs on Google. I
found a reasonably good source at
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/proverbs.html
Surprisingly, I found that there are few proverbs related to measurement. I
used the search facility on the site to check for all the usual suspects: inch,
foot, yard, mile are examples.
The following are just some random thoughts that occurred to me as I read
through some of these. Please excuse the quality of some of these — it's late
and I'm tired.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest 7.92 inches.
Give him a millimetre and he'll take a kilometre.
Many watts make light work.
Don't do the hard yards; the metre is neater — and sweeter.
Old cubits die hard, as do the old inch, the old foot, and the old yard.
A gram of prevention is better than a tonne of cure.
Share the rod, pole, and perch and spoil the kid, child, and teen.
It's the last gram that breaks the camel's back.
People who live in glasshouses need to undress in the dark.
A millimetre miss is a kilometre miss.
A 300 millimetre pianist?
The kilometre high club.
In for a cent, in for a dollar.
Cent wise, dollar foolish.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
PO Box 305 Belmont 3216,
Geelong, Australia
Phone: 61 3 5241 2008
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