Do all Asian parents deliver weird, quasi-Confucian aphorisms? My mom - who, bless her heart, hates being cerebral - is a metaphor machine. I dunno what happened there.
ETA: HAHA, I think fash smasher mcgoo is right; my mom gets it from the newspaper. Fack.
jessica
omg, i think we have the same mom.
fash smasher mcgoo
my mom cited the EXACT same case to me! They must have been reading the same Chinese newspaper.