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WHEN MY WIFE receives an email that she thinks I will enjoy she forwards it on to me. This article is about one of those emails, this one with pithy folk sayings or "aphorisms." You don't have to be very old to appreciate the "folk knowledge" shared in the list below. I had never heard of any of these sayings before but they all seem to make sense to me.
Speaking of old sayings, I think the cleverest old saying I ever heard was the day, about 30 years ago, when I took my grandfather fishing. He was about 80 years old at the time, and I had taken him to a local lake to fish for white bass. Anyone that has ever gotten into white bass when they are schooling and feeding on small fish knows that you can catch a big bunch in a small amount of time. We got into a large school of fish and were catching a white bass on every cast. We were catching them so fast...