The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
More wisdom next Friday,
Andrew
About Andrew Reynolds
Born in California
Did the school thing studying electronics, computers, release engineering and literary criticism.
I worked in the high tech world doing software release engineering and am now retired.
Then I got prostate cancer.
Now I am a blogger and work in my wood shop doing scroll saw work and marquetry.
Hi Andrew a very wise thought. Thank you for liking my poem “Spectrum Of Colour!” Best Wishes The Foureyed Poet.
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Love it! It pays to be a follower rather than a leader.
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My motto exactly.
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So true…
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🙂
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Ha! That’s funny and true. These sayings never get old and most of them are hilarious.
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as long as you’re not the first mouse… 😉
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Very true! Poor mouse 😦
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Now that really was wisdom!!
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🙂
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AH! Had to think about that one…… awww, poor first mouse! 🙂
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Poor mouse. 😉
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I need to think on that one. I’m a tad slow today.
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I’ve got the itch to start my long weekend, time moving slowly at work.
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and it can be viewed in a number of ways, some happy and some sad. It’s a saying that either makes you laugh or cry for the first mouse…
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Oh that’s a good one!
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I’ve always liked it.
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Hee, hee!!!
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🙂
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Reblogged this on A Simple, Village Undertaker and commented:
Simple, but true.
Being first isn’t always better.
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