A first grade teacher collected wellknown proverbs. She gace each child in her class the first half of a proverb and had them come up with the rest.       By Allen Jablonski

Better to be safe than ............ punch a 5th grader.
Strike while the ............ bug is close.
It'salways darkest before ............ daylight savings time.
Never underestimate the power ............ of termites.
Don't bite the hand that ............ looks dirty.
Children should be seen and not ............ spanked and grounded.
A miss is as good as a ............ mister.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and ............ you have to blow your nose.
Two's company, three's ............ the Musketeers.
You can't teach an old dog ............ new math.
If you lie down with dogs, you'll ............ stink in the morning.
The pen is mightier than ............ the pigs.
Where there's smoke there's ............ pollution.
You get out of somthing, what you ............ see pictured on the box.
A penny saved is ............ not much.
If at first you don't succeed ............ get new batteries.