conventional wisdom

(i)

You're too good to be other than true
Too many cooks enhance the kitchen

A watched pot is wonderful
If you can't stand the heat -- learn to stand it

Every cloud has a dark side
Curiousity distinguished the cat

There's no place like no place
All roads lead to you

(ii)

There was so much there there
A rose is not a rose is not a rose is not a rose

This might be your 15 seconds of obscurity
God is even more famous than the Beatles

The internet was not invented
America discovered Columbus

If not now -- certainly later
If there were world enough & time -- & there is!

(iii)

First thought -- second thought
I am not -- therefore I don't think

How often I step into the same river twice!
Once smitten -- twice sly

One swallow makes a summer
One flower makes a garland

When it rains -- it merely drizzles
All good things must begin again

Three of the original sayings (that is, adages underlying my rewrites) were located here: wise old sayings