“A watched pot never boils.... but it does develop paranoia”
“Don't believe everything they tell you, boy. A watched pot does boil and sometimes you ken tell a book by its cover. Why, iffen there's a naked lady on it, then it ain't gonna show up in no Sunday school class, now is it?”
“A turtle should take fright at the sound of a boiling pot.”
“If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam.”
“A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't, this world would end at once.”
“Amazing how the soup pots of small townsare just waiting to boil over anything at all.”