When you stretch the truth watch out for the snapback.
The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.
Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
Before deciding to retire stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows.
Not only is women's work never done the definition keeps changing.
A book is sent out into the world and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible Homer Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.