When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with a hammer over and over again, and being surprised each time when it hurts. So you might as well stop doing it.
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often, I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Germany. She said 'cut it out'
When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?
You don't do anything to further your stay aboard a ship that you see is going to go down to the bottom of the ocean.
Eating chicken without skin is like riding a bike without wheels
A foolish dog barks at a flying bird
My horse's jockey was hitting the horse. The horse turns around and says "Why are you hitting me, there is nobody behind us!"
You cannot kickstart a dead horse
You don't shoot a dog when it is already dead.
When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?
