Firstmention.com; Texas Proverbs

[Charles Doyle]

I doubt if any of these purported Texas witticisms can properly be called "proverbs"--much less "old . . . proverbs."

--Charlie
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>Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:29:24 -0400
>From: Barry Popik <bapopik at GMAIL.COM>

>In a message dated 8/23/2007 12:07:39 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>dad at POKERWIZ.COM writes:
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>FYI, I'm working on these Texas Proverbs:
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>http://www.houblon.net/?page=3Dbre-imprim&id_breve=3D13
>  Ancient Texas proverb
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>Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
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>Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
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>
>http://lists.sonic.net/pipermail/jokes_du_jour/2005-June/000105.html
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>Texas Proverb
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>Life is NOT like a box of chocolates.
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>Life is like a jar of jalape=F1os.
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>What you do today
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>May burn your ass tomorrow.
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>(GOOGLE BOOKS)
> A *Texas* Past Revisited: In Search of Texana Belle - Page
>215<http://books.google.com/books?id=3DI_M361J8bxgC&pg=3DPA215&dq=3D%22texa=
>s+proverb%22&ie=3DISO-8859-1&sig=3D07ziW5NfoIkvZTa3DVl6CLb2U80>by
>B. Bryce Davis - History - 2006 - 326 pages
>Resting from my strivings and anger, I had a fleeting desire to displace my
>irritation by testing an old *Texas proverb*: "You will always find oil
>under a Texas graveyard."
>...
>...
>(GOOGLE BOOKS
> A Time for Reflection: An Autobiography - Page
>148<http://books.google.com/books?id=3Dt9whMjtjCt4C&pg=3DPA148&dq=3D%22texa=
>s+proverb%22&ie=3DISO-8859-1&sig=3DbX3FzfIsH762TUHKawUi67BRLUs>by
>William E. Simon - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 352 pages
>For some reason, an old *Texas proverb* came to mind: "Now is the time to
>raise
>the cow's tail and look the situation squarely in the face.

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