Sayings

Don't count your chickens before
they are hatched.|"Let's put a bell around the cat's
neck," said a young mouse.|"But who will put the bell there?" asked
another mouse.|Necessity is the mother of invention.|He laughs best who
laughs last.|There is always someone worse off than yourself.|He who plays a trick
must be able to take a joke.|Hansel walked behind his stepmother,
dropping breadcrumbs one at a time.|Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair.|A beaver's dam can
change the course of a river.|The path geese take home
is called a flyway.|The last dinosaur
lived 65 million years ago.|A golden eagle has a seven foot wing span.|"Who's that tripping
over my bridge?" roared the troll.|Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!|All baby kangaroos
are called 'joey.'|A group of kangaroos is called a mob.|Kindergarten
means "children's garden" in German.|Fiddle dee dee, fiddle dee
dee, the fly has married the bumble bee!|You can always tell
your neighbor, can always tell your pal, if you've ever navigated
on the Erie Canal.|To dream what your dog dreams, put a lock of
its hair under your pillow.|Legend has it that dogs with seven
toes can see ghosts.|A flying squirrel will always bark when it
sees a ghost.|You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.|
|To catch a rabbit, put salt on its tail.|Snug as a bug in a rug.|Slower than molasses in January.|Witches cannot cross running water except
in an eggshell.|Some folks say that a tree will live longer if a
child plants it.|There are eight bits in a byte of computer information.|Starlight can take two thousand years to reach earth.|Even light
cannot escape from a black hole.|Precious metals are formed in a
super-nova, the explosion of a star.|An ice-skater speeds her
spin by pulling in her arms.|The earth is 4.6 billion years old,
according to most scientists.|Man has been on the earth for less
than 5 million years.|200 million years ago there was only one
big continent called "Pangaea."|Oceans cover almost three quarters of the earth's surface.|The average comet is about the
size of a mountain.|The surface of Venus is hot enough to melt lead.|Mountains on Mars can be twice as high as Mount Everest.|Jupiter has fourteen moons.|Besides Saturn, Jupiter and Uranus also have rings.|There are 42,000 doorknobs
in the World Trade Center.|Each floor of the World Trade Center
is the size of a football field.|Winter temperatures in the Arctic
average under 50 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit).|The Old Faithful geyser blows every hour
for about four minutes.|Horses are measured in four inch units called hands.|The inch began as
three grains of barley laid next to each other.|A fortnight is two weeks.|Most of the energy in the world comes
originally from the sun.|Australians call hurricanes
"fwilly-willies."|Hurricanes can have winds of over 200 miles per hour.|
Let sleeping dogs lie.|All bark and no bite.|April showers bring May flowers.|If one person yawns,
everyone in the room will yawn.|Haste makes waste.|Better
late than never.|Good as gold.|Busy as a bee.|Strong as an ox.|Mad as a hornet.|Johnny Appleseed wore a tin kettle on his head.|Dorothy clicked her
heels and said, "There's no place like home."|Jack sold his mother's cow for some magic beans.|The glass slipper fit Cinderella perfectly.|"The British are coming!"
yelled Paul Revere.|One quarter of all the people in the world live in China.|To signal trouble,
fly the American flag upside down.|There are Boy Scouts
in over 100 countries.|Idaho is famous for its potatoes.|Montana calls itself "Big Sky Country."|Alaska is the biggest state.|Rhode Island is the smallest state.|Florida has more coastline
than California.|Texas was once its own country.|The biggest city in the United States is New York.|Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
ran away to an island.|Hickory dickory dock,
the mouse ran up the clock.|Cold hands, warm heart.|The alarm clock
was invented 200 years ago.|Tortoises can live up to 200 years.|A penny saved is a penny earned.|An apple a day
keeps the doctor away.|Jaguars are afraid of dogs.|Hummingbirds can fly backwards.|An elephant can hear a mouse's footsteps.|The fin on the back of a fish
is called the dorsal.|There are over 3,000 human languages.|In ancient Rome,
only emperors could wear purple.|The letter 'A' began as a symbol for oxen.|There are 206 bones
in the human body.|About 5 million skin cells
would fit onto a postage stamp.|There are over 100,000 hairs on your head.|The turtle beat the hare.|The Hatter was quite mad, thought Alice.|@

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