'You can't cry over spilled milk' <br />my mother always said. <br />'Life's not a piece of cake' <br />she hammered in my head! <br /> <br />'That's the way it goes, <br />' the way the cookie crumbles' <br />My mother saved her idioms <br />for my idiotic troubles..<br /><br />Once upon a toilet wall<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/idioms-for-an-idiot/