A couple of years ago, Bonnie Peters and I were talking about old timey sayings. Later, I sat down and compiled a bunch of them. Back in the day, before television and a movie costing an arm and a leg, we enjoyed sitting around seeing who could remember the most maxims. Most have a kernel of truth in them. See if you remember any of these:

1, Five leaf clovers bad luck. Continue looking until you find a four lead clover to restore your good luck.
2. Don't start anything on Friday. You will never finish it.
3. Don't step on a crack in the sidewalk. You will break your mother's back.
4. As a child we would look for plantain in the yard. The number of threads on the broken end of the stem foretold how many children you would have.
5. Don't put on your shirt backwards, or you will have bad luck all day.
6. If a family member is buried on a rainy day, two more deaths will surely follow.
7. The last Friday and Saturday of the month rule the next month. If Friday is stormy, the first half of the month will be stormy. If it is sunny and pleasant on the last Friday, the first part of the next month will be the same. Saturday rules the last half of the month the same way.
8. Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
9. If you spill salt, throw some of the spilled salt over your shoulder. It makes a difference which one, but I don't remember which one.
10. Don't cry over spilled milk. Why not?
11. Don't go to bed mad or you will get up mad.
12. Don't mix your metaphors. It's confusing.
13. A new broom sweeps clean.
14. Taking a picture of someone in their coffin is bad luck.
15. A new knife will always draw blood. Let someone else use it first.
16. When you are with child, seeing an ugly person will mark the baby with a birthmark.
17. A full moon is bad luck. Be careful.
18. Eat everything on your plate or you will have bad luck. At least that is what my mother used to say..
19. A watched pot will never boil. Ignore it, and it will boil.
20. If you spy a coin on the ground, tails side up, turn it over before you remove it from the ground, for good luck.
21. See a penny on the ground? Someone in heaven is thinking about you.
22. Nothing rhymes with orange.
23. A broken shoelace is bad luck.
24. Monkey see; monkey do.
25. Hearing a rooster crowing during the night is bad luck.
26. Shaking hands with the left hand is bad luck.
27. If you think a gun is empty, beware, it probably isn't.
28. Beware of a stranger bearing gifts.
29. Don't skate on thin ice.
30. If it rains before seven, it will clear before eleven.