Wildwood Wisdom (part 1)

I'm a week away from finishing up the book of Proverbs with my Wildwood high schoolers (we're studying biblical wisdom literature). As part of today's class (and with no warning and a ten-minute time limit), I asked the students to write their own proverbs. Most were really clever, and I thought I'd post some of their entries throughout the week (I've got a test tomorrow morning and two papers due Thursday, so blogging may be sparse this week). Here goes:

"Dogs are like children;

give them a cookie and they love you forever."

"A wise man heats his car up before scraping ice off of it,

but a fool hastily hacks it off and cracks his windshield."

"Like salt on a wound does too much gum ail the jaw,

but a big mouth will become useful."

And here's one on last night's Oscar awards:

"My son, expecting others to make the right choices will surely lead to disappointment, but he who keeps their humanity in mind will not be caught off guard."

More tomorrow.