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- When it rains, it pours
- I’ll be damned
- Drowning in sorrow
- To dampen one’s enthusiasm/spirits
- Break the ice
- Watered down
- You shore can
- Go with the flow
- You’re in deep water
- Dry humour
- Don’t piss off the alligator until you’ve crossed the river
- Keep at bay
- Keep the pot boiling
- That’s water under the bridge
- Kick up a storm
- She’s in hot water
- Rain on your parade
- Off the deep end
- Open the floodgates
- Channel surfing
- Run out of steam
- The calm before the storm
- Sleep with the fishes
- Blow off steam
- In hot water
- Until hell freezes over
- Take a raincheck
- Skating on thin ice
- Rubber duck
- Trim one’s sails
- Slippery when wet
- Water over the dam
- Went storming off
- In every life a little rain must fall
- My head is swimming
- Pour it on thick
- Bored to tears
- Between the devil and the deep blue sea
- Muddy the water
- You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make her drink
- Throwing out the baby with the bath water
- As white as snow
- As helpful as a screen door on a submarine
- Better than a slap in the face with a wet fish
- Mexican wave
- A fine kettle of fish
- A big fish in a small pond
- Plain sailing
- Binge drinking
- Blood, sweat and tears
- Behind the clouds, the sun is shining
- Body surfing
- Rising tide
- Let’s cross that bridge when we come to it
- Chasing rainbows
- Paddle your own canoe
- Babble like a brook
- Laugh like a drain
- Crocodile tears
- Lame duck
- Sitting duck
- Soft drink
- Don’t rock the boat
- If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck…
- If your ship doesn’t come in, you have to row out to meet it
- Drink like a fish
- He’s fishing for compliments
- Hook, line and sinker
- If today was a fish, i’d throw it back in the river
- Lay there like a beached whale
- Rats abandon a sinking ship
- River of tears
- As sharp as a sack of wet mice
- As sharp as a wet corn flake
- Stew in his own juice
- She’s not the only fish in the sea
- Still waters run deep
- Tip of the iceberg
- After the rain comes a rainbow
- We might as well get our ears wet
- Wet behind the ears
- All’s well that ends well
- Well’s run dry
- Whatever floats your boat
- Cold as ice
- A wet bird never flies at night
- A whale of a time
- Cottage by the lake
- Couldn’t punch your way out of a wet paper bag
- Cross that bridge when we get to it
- Cry me a river
- Son’t give a damn
- All in the same boat
- Dry as a bone
- Duck the question
- Eat drink and be merry
- Even at the turning of the tide
- The tides have turned
- Every cloud has a silver lining
- A fish out of water
- A drop in the ocean
- Full steam ahead
- Full head of steam
- Get your ducks in a row
- Getting soaked (as in cheated)
- Going against the tide
- Head in the clouds
- That shore is (funny/sad/long/etc.)
Kauffman’s Paradox of the Corporation: The less important you are to the corporation, the more your tardiness or absence is noticed.
Peter's Principle: In any organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
Herblock's Law: If it is good, they will stop making it.
Murphy's Law: If something can go wrong, it likely will.
O'Toole's Rule: Murphy was an optimist.
Andy Rooney's 50-50-90 Rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Timothy's Principle: If something happens, it was meant to happen. Otherwise something else would have happened!
Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies.--Adrienne Gusoff
It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.--Darrin Weinberg
Common sense is not so common. --Voltaire
It’s not so much what folks don’t know that causes problems; it’s what they do know that ain’t so. --Artemus Ward
A wise man never knows all; only fools know everything. --Unknown
When all is said and done, as a rule, more is said than done. --Lou Holtz
Only a mediocre person is always at his best. --W. Somerset Maugham
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? --Edgar Bergen
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. --A.A. Milne
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg. --Abraham Lincoln
Statistics always remind me of the fellow who drowned in a river whose average depth was three feet. --Woody Hayes
Why is "nice" bad? What kind of a sick society are we living in when nice is bad?--George Costanza (Jason Alexander) in famous "Seinfeld" tv show
Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.--Jerry Seinfeld
Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called "rush hour"? --George Carlin
Enjoy yourself. These are the “good old days” you’re going to miss in the years to come.—Robert Palmer
If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.—Robert Palmer
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. --M. Kathleen Casey
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made. --Groucho Marx
When looking for a reason why people do certain things, never rule out sheer stupidity. --Walter E. Williams
People who think they know everything are very irritating to those of us who do.
It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.
After many years of trying to find steady work I finally got a job as a historian until I realized there was no future in it.
I always try to go the extra mile at work, but my boss always finds me and brings me back.
Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect--so why practice? Oh, alright!
First rule of acting: Whatever happens, look as if it were intended.
If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished!
It's a BIG mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize that you are in a hurry.
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
There ought to be a better way to start the day than by getting up in the morning.
For this life, I left the comfort of the primeval ooze?
God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now, I am so far behind I will never die.
Today is the last day of your life so far.
The difference between ignorance and apathy? I don't know, and I couldn't care less.
Annoying you personally is part of my ongoing therapy.
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional.
Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks?
The workers at the Federal Mint went on strike today. They are demanding to make less money!
If you give some managers an inch, they think they're a ruler.
Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity.
Help stamp out and eradicate superfluous redundancy.
Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now.
I'd like to help you out. Which way did you come in?
The gene pool could use a little chlorine.
Someday, we’ll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject.
If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
Don’t assume malice for what stupidity can explain.
The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them.
For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.
The sooner you fall behind, the more time you’ll have to catch up.
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
If ignorance is bliss, you must be orgasmic.