Add to the Adage

...to forgive is devine.

Mess with the bull...
 
the answer is

1 1/2 a bird in hand

2 1/2 is better than 2 in the bush

watch your pennies
 
Cause when they mate, you have to quickly remove the babies, or they will eat them. (why do you think that most people say that money won't breed in captivity?)

When the cat's away
 
Spilled vodka is another thing.

(seriously, I thought 'don't cry over spilled milk was all of it.... I'm gonna continue that one... also, what was the pennies one?)

Don't cry over spilled milk... (from snoopy 65)
 
'cause tears and milk taste yucky.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day,
 
teach him to fish and his wife will never see him.

People who live in glass houses shouldn't
 
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