Proverbs — Anna style

Have you seen this floating around the world wide web lately? Take a look.

Some of the answers are kind of funny, but I would say most are too clever to be from the mouths of first graders. But I also thought it would be a fun experiment to see what Anna would come up with. And it was totally worth it. I gave her the first half of these proverbs, and she came up with the endings. Some of her answers were quite astute. Some were complete nonsense, like Don't put off til tomorrow what . . . "has new hope." And by number 22, she was pretty worked up: If at first you don't succeed . . . "you shall replenish in the depths of the world."

But some were pretty close to the real meaning and others her own brand of great. Here are Anna's versions of a few of them.

Never underestimate the power of . . . "light."

You can lead a horse to water but . . . "not fire."

Don't bite the hand that . . . "helps you."

No news is . . . "good or bad—just medium."

A miss is as good as a . . . "mister."

You can't teach an old dog new . . . "things."

If you lie down with dogs, you'll . . . "get diseases."

Love all, trust . . . "no robbers."

The pen is mightier than the . . . "lead of a pencil."

An idle mind is . . . "weird."

Where there's smoke, there's . . . "fire."

Happy the bride who . . . "weds the weirdo groom."

A penny saved is . . . "a dollar earned."

Two's company, three's . . . "a factory."

Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and . . .  "the whole world laughs at you."

There are none so blind as . . . "two senses gone from someone."

Children should be seen and not . . . "hidden."

You get out of something only what you . . . "tell the truth in."

A bird in the hand is worth  . . . "fifty cents."

Better late than . . . "early."