1. Don't expect more just because you get something good. For example: Xmas presents.
2. If you are sure you're correct about everything, you know nothing, truly intelligent people always question everything, like scientists.
3.Probably something like: If you don't try to find excuses for not doing things, then you'll probably save a lot of time/money? (tinkers where pot & pan repairers/makers)
4.Power is relative: If you have more power than all those around, you are the ruler, no matter how little that power might be.
5.Don't upset people, when things are going alright by saying something you believe/know to be true, but they don't believe/know.
6.If you need something, you'll find a way of getting it: if there is no way to travel 20 miles per hour/fast, invent the car/ tame a horse.
7.If you sit around doing nothing (procrastinate), then all your time will vanish, and you'll have no time to do things.
8.When enacting revenge, plot how to upset the offending person/people as much as possible, don't hold back, be cold blooded.
9.If you keep someone happy all the time, you have power over them. For example: If a government keeps the people happy, they will never rebel, this government will rule always.
10.Try not to offend people, but have the ability to defend if necessary.

1.The horse has bad teeth or spits.
2.Question Authority.
3.Nothing goin on, must have blown a fuse.
4.The one eyed King doesn't need Braile.
5.Tip the boat over.
6.Wal Mart is the Mother of Monopoly.
7.Spontaneoity is the redeemer of the vulnerable.
8.Roast beef is a dish best served HOT.
9.I mean I might as well be listenin' to Journey
10.Eat Spam from the can watch late night C-Span
And rock out to old school Duran Duran

YOU'RE LIKE A HAWAIIAN PUNCH MOUSTACHE

Actually the quote for number 10 was 'Speak softly and carry a big stick' and referred to Roosevelt's foreign policy. The quote was an allusion to the usage of soft skills such as negotiation with the implicit suggestion of the back up of political or military might

Also, don't look a gift horse in the mouth came from the habit of guessing a horse's age by looking at its teeth.

1. When buying a horse, one of the things you can do is look in his mouth to judge his health, etc. (similar to looking under the hood at a car). Proverb means that a gift is a gift, not a purchase, and you should accept gifts with gratitude.
2. Don't just accept knowledge as given to you, but question it.
3.) It means that people offer many excuses (ifs and buts). Tinkers sell pots and pans. If all the excuses in the world were turned into pots and pans, there would be no more need for the tinker.
4.) Even if someone doesn't have great ability, he could become a leader among those with even less ability.
5.) If you rock the boat, it could overturn. Proverb means that you shouldn't make problems.
6.) If there is a great need for something, people will put a lot of effort into devising solutions (inventions).
7.) Say you have a bank account in which all of the time you have is deposited. If you procrastinate, your bank account will empty with nothing to show for the time you spent.
8.) If you seek revenge in the heat of the moment, you are ruled by passion and may not enact the best revenge. If you wait and think about it, the revenge will be a calculated move which can have a more serious impact.
9.) Those who care for and nurture children have great power, for their influence has a great impact on how we will act as we mature into adults.
10.) "Speak softly and carry a big stick" means that you should approach situations in a calm, non-aggressive way, but you should use aggression if it is necessary (for instance, if you are threatened."

Some of these are actually idioms and not proverbs.

1.Don't complain when sumthin is givin to you
2.Means when you doubt you ask questions and get answers
3.Ask questions because not too many people do that
4.Be grateful for what you do have and for what you dont
5.Don't start trouble when it could end VERY badly
6.When you need things that makes you think what ways could i obtain them
7.Puttin things off only wastes time later
8.if your going to get revenge on someone don't be two-faced
9.The person taking care of you has total control of you
10.Don't start trouble, but if it happens be prepared.

1. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth

This saying is about unlooked-for opportunities. When horses were in more common usage, they were fairly costly (they're insanely pricey today, but not as bad as they used to be). Getting a horse as a gift would be about like getting a car for a gift today -- pretty extravagant. Why wouldn't you want to look in its mouth? Why *would* you want to look in a horse's mouth, anyway? Blecch, stinky breath!! However, you can judge a horse's age by looking at its teeth. A free car probably has something wrong with it, and the same goes for a gift horse. If you looked a gift horse in the mouth, you'd probably find that its teeth were well-worn, and thus the horse was old and you probably wouldn't get a lot of use out of it. However, since it's a *gift*, you don't check for flaws... you graciously say thank you and don't think too hard about why you got a free horse. Even a "gift horse" (which can be anything -- the idiom is often used of an opportunity) can have a lot of get up and go still!

2. Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom

Well, this is one I hadn't heard before, but it's sort of akin to the sayings about how you only become wise when you know how foolish you are. When you doubt something, you ask questions about it, and when those questions are answered, you know more and can make better (and wiser) judgments.

3. If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers

This saying is pretty close kind to "If wishes were horses then beggars would ride". "If" and "and" are common qualifying words. "If I had this... and if I had that"... and so forth.... They are often used to describe situations that do not exist but would be nice. A tinker is a person who makes or fixes pots, pans, and anything else metal. This saying refers to the human tendency to talk about situations that are better than the reality; people are so given to doing this that if the words they use to describe these situations -- "if" and "and" -- were suddenly turned into pots and pans, no one would ever need to make a pot or a pan again.

4. In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king

How well does a one-eyed man see? Not well, but much better than a blind man. This saying might be seen to have to do with adaptability -- people with slight gifts do better than those with none -- but I believe it is about perspective. A person with a little bit of a necessity might look like he has a lot to those who have none of it.

5. Don't rock the boat

This saying is about the value of the status quo. When a boat gets rocked, everyone on the boat gets seasick, and there's vomit everywhere and no one is happy... We say "don't rock the boat" in situations where someone wants to make a change to the status quo, especially a change that will make someone else unhappy.

6. Necessity is the mother of invention

This saying *is* about adaptability: it posits that humans have a capacity to see a need for a thing in a given situation and create that thing. For instance: The Allies needed massive amounts of computing power in order to break the Enigma code in WWII, and out of that need came the computer. Or... businesspersons wanted to be able to take that computing power with them, and the industry created the laptop computer.

7. Procrastination is the thief of time

Procrastination is the art of avoiding a necessary task because it is tedious or ugly or you simply don't want to do it. When a person procrastinates, they find something else to do so they can excuse the fact that they haven't started on the onerous task, but while they are doing the other activity they can't help but think about the onerous task. Moreover, when the task is avoided it often becomes more onerous as time passes. Procrastinating makes a task even worse because you are fixated on the task you're not doing, and the longer you avoid it the longer it will take when you finally do it. It's somewhat akin to "a stitch in time saves nine".

8. Revenge is a dish best served cold

This saying is about satisfaction, self-control, and closure. If someone wrongs another person, it's common for the wronged party to want revenge. If they go after the offender immediately, however, their revenge is poorly planned because they're angry and aren't able to think clearly. In order to gain really satisfying revenge, the wronged party should step back, calm themselves, and plan carefully for the right time. They need to be cold, rather than emotionally "hot" and angry, in order to plan their revenge properly.

9. The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

This saying is about the formative power of mothers. Mothers -- whose hands rocked cradles, when cradles rocked -- are an infant's whole world, and they usually maintain that influence throughout a person's life. A mother rules an individual's world by forming their views and shaping their personality. Mothers rule the world -- not directly, generally, but by shaping the views and personalities of the world's rulers.

10. Walk softly but carry a big stick

Thanks to Teddy Roosevelt for this saying. This saying is partly about being a real man: you don't have to show off how strong you are; you walk softly. But you carry a big stick -- so that if someone challenges you, you're ready for them. A "big stick" is (I think) a hunting term for a REALLY BIG gun... so this saying is also about hunting. Don't draw attention to yourself, but be ready for big game.


Those are great questions -- I don't know if I've answered them all right, but it was fun to try!

"Don't look a gift horse in the mouth"

This is when to good to be true opertunity/luck comes your way and then this proverb is used.
The reason why not to look a horse in the mouth is because horse people can tell a horses age by its teeth to the nearest year.
So the reason for this proverb is to get on with it and don't look too close as you may be put off and ruin the chance you get. That you may also realise something is indeed too good to be true.