Break the Phrase!

[Dramatic Flare]

So my idea for the game is that one person provides a common phrase or saying ,or perhaps a particularly famous one, and the poster below them has to somehow find a way that phrase wouldn't work.
For example:

Phrase: It's raining cats and dogs.

response: Not if a hurricane makes it rain fish instead!

I'm pretty certain that will make sense.

Important:
Do not use phrases that are ambiguous or just difficult to break.
Specifically, don't use "that's what she said" because there's only two ways to break it: on of them involves a "he" either having said it first or the phrase poster having bad vision and it being a he, or that the she is actually a hermaphrodite. It's obvious.
The same goes with other absurdly simply phrases. ("your mom", for instance).


Having said that, first phrase:

Sticks and stones
may break my bones,
but words will never hurt me.

 

[Danglybits]

No, but they'll make you develop an eating disorder and tendency toward abusive relationships.


It's a slippery slope my friend.

 

[terribleyetfun]

not if that slope is only 10 degrees

a penny saved is a penny earned

 

[ThePoodonkis]

Especially since you can't buy anything with a penny anymore.

Patience is a virtue.

 

[Higurashi]

Except for 'shrooms and turtles.

Be not disturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

Edit: easier one.

 

[Datalord]

But how do we know you didn't misunderstand an understanding, or understand a mutual misunderstanding?

The NAil that sticks up gets hammered down

 

[chomesuke]

It had it coming, as long as you do what everyone else does, you're going to be fine.

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

 

[xxcloud417xx]

except in real life.

It's better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.

 

[Dancingman]

Said one who has never lost

War determines not who is right, but who is left.

 

[coldfrog]

Even though it was the right who wanted the war to begin with.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

 

[xxcloud417xx]

But the Rolling Stones have gathered plenty... and smoked it all.

The grass is always greener on the other side. (until the Rolling Stones smoke that grass too!) (sorry had to do it.)

ummm...

Do hugs not drugs!

 

[RedDiablo]

But the Rolling Stones is a magazine.

 

[Johnn Johnston]

Do hugs not drugs, unless someone is offering "Free Drugs". Pick them over "Free Hugs" any day - learn to recognise a profit, my son.

It never rains, but it pours.

 

[COR 2000]

... Except if it's acid.

Friendly fire- isn't.

 

[Dramatic Flare]

But fire can at times be determinedly neutral, like when you're going to die in the Alaskan wilderness due to hypothermia unless you start that fire.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

 

[Mr. Fister]

Until said bird craps in your hand, then it's worth roadkill.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

 

[xxcloud417xx]

Except in math.

All men are not created equal.

 

[Higurashi]

Luckily. But one man can rise above any other with enough effort.

Do not seek answers; seek to understand the questions.

 

[Dancingman]

Great, you understand the question, but you still don't know the answer.

The sins of the father are passed on to the son.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Not if the son dies.

Tony Bennett is right: the Best is yet to come.