Do You Know

[society]

"Never leave your friends up the creek without a paddle because you may meet them coming down".

Is this the same as "don't dam the bridge you cross" ?

Do you know other saying or proverbs which relate to this?

[Zacs-Master]

I've heard the first one as the more common 'Watch who you step on on your way up the ladder, you may meet them coming down'

I dont see how you can dam a bridge and have nerver heard the phrase,

[weecalf]

Do as you would wish to be done by .Dont know if that one or I just made it up but its on the same theme

[woofgang]

well the proverbs you quote I would call malapropisms...they are not quite that but very similar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malapropism
...or maybe a mixed metaphor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor

[society]

"I dont see how you can dam a bridge and have nerver heard the phrase,"

Zaxmaster, I'm don't know what you are trying to say, or mean. You are not making sense to me.

[sandyRoe]

damn a bridge?

[boxtops]

I've never heard the one about damming a bridge - the only way you could do that is by blocking up the watercourse.

[society]

Boxy, my grandmother used to say that one often. I believe it interprets don't forget your past or something of the sort.

[Old_Geezer]

Probably a family thing.

[davetuc]

Don't sh1t on your own doorstep?

[rob2024]

also similar - "be nice to people on the way up, you might meet them on the way down"!

[2sp_]

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.