Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Our parents had a few favorite expressions when we were growing up. 

If the shoe fits… it’s a hard pill to swallow, do unto others. A penny saved is a penny earned. If at first you don’t… 
So many cliches that still go the distance, even hold water and don’t grow on just any tree. They live at our front door, on the daily like orange juice and  “all the news that’s fit to print.” Just ask my sisters, we hardly grew up in a cliched environment, but somehow exhuming adages from our childhood surface like a “rule of thumb,”. 

Always look on the bright side of life, money doesn’t grow on trees, and if at first you don’t succeed- try, try again.
We often heard in order to shake things up and effect different results do something different. Walk to school on another street. Take a course and learn another skill. Or how bout listen to your gut. If something doesn’t feel right, just doesn’t mesh, flip it and move to another table. 
Some of the people some of the time. You will know when you know. Try it on for size, because the shoe doesn’t fit…
Fast forward and so many years later of trying not to cry over spilled milk, we wonder if during those “Wonder Years” when Harry met Sally and the Beav was not included in a game of B ball with Wally’s friends, would we still want to, as our friend Linda says dance at every party? Run on sentence counters yup that was a doozy. Is there a point when our egos don’t fracture easily, where we pick up our colloquial Barbie doll,  i.e. canasta and mj cards and move on to a better 8 card fit? Just for today turn the (Gloria Gaynor) beat around.
Have a great day at the table where they are holding your seat.