It is the pot that boils but the dish that gets the credit.
The stomach never gets full with licking.
Choosy pigs never get fat.
Fools never get grey hair.
The communal donkey gets the heaviest burden.
How easily a hair gets into the butter.
A henpecked husband gets no support during a lawsuit.
The more you add, the worse it gets.
By asking the impossible you will get the best.
The good dog never gets a good bone.
The elephant does not get tired of its tusks.
Tomorrow is the day that idlers get busy.
The eye does not get over the eyebrow.
Where there is no might, right gets lost.
A girl only gets pregnant once.
A bad reaper never gets a good sickle.
If you would get ahead, be a bridge.
Life is the biggest bargain -- we get it for nothing.
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