Tall poppies all the way down

You know when you chop down those tall poppies you can then see the next highest ones to be chopped down? Continue the process and all that remains is scorched earth.

Killing cockroaches

If you only have one can of spray, find and use it on the nest of cockroaches - not just the ones that appear in your kitchen.

The generosity of other people's money

It seems that those who are happiest when someone else's money is being given to their cause cry loudest when threatened with the same.

Political blood from a productive stone

When the stone stops giving blood stop squeezing and promise to pick up another one.

An unsatisfactory death

What a tedious way to die, believing I knew it all