Sayings and Truths we knew as kids

1oldguy · « **Reply #20 on:** 5 Jul 2012, 02:33 pm »

You don't know a man till you walk a mile in his shoes!!!

1oldguy · « **Reply #21 on:** 5 Jul 2012, 02:34 pm »

Eat your food then you won't have to eat it!!!

1oldguy · « **Reply #22 on:** 5 Jul 2012, 02:36 pm »

It ain't over till the fat lady sings!!!!

thunderbrick · « **Reply #23 on:** 5 Jul 2012, 02:38 pm »

Don't buy cheap Japanese crap!

If you're going to be in a car wreck, it's better to be in a massive, heavy vehicle.

~~Social Security will be there when we retire!~~

1oldguy · « **Reply #24 on:** 5 Jul 2012, 02:38 pm »

Don't blame the rainbow for the rain!!!

1oldguy · « **Reply #25 on:** 5 Jul 2012, 02:40 pm »

The older we get the better we used to be!!!

Larry Woolacott · « **Reply #26 on:** 5 Jul 2012, 02:43 pm »

Son, there's two things in life that will get you in trouble, your dick and your signature.

WGH · « **Reply #27 on:** 5 Jul 2012, 02:51 pm »

Everything has two ends.

rollo · « **Reply #28 on:** 5 Jul 2012, 02:54 pm »

Hmmm. "One lump deserves another", " To each his own", "Make Love not War", " Reap what you Sow", " Save for a Rainy day", "The Early Bird gets the Worm", " Sticks and Stones will break my bones but Words will never harm me" and " Fools rush In"

charles

sfraser · « **Reply #29 on:** 5 Jul 2012, 03:24 pm »

Quote from: 1oldguy on 5 Jul 2012, 02:33 pm

You don't know a man till you walk a mile in his shoes!!!

And after that your mile away from him , and you have his shoes!

Ron D · « **Reply #30 on:** 5 Jul 2012, 04:03 pm »

Don't run with scissors!

Put that down you'll put someone's eye out!

If a deal looks too good to be true it usually is...

Go outside and play - we were never told what to play with and more times than not got hell for whatever we decided to play with

Will you go light somewhere!

Alpha10 · « **Reply #31 on:** 5 Jul 2012, 07:39 pm »

Back when I was a young kid at boarding school in the UK my dad used to write a letter to me once a week, on the bottom of the letters he always put the letters:

DLTBGYD

Many years later I found out that it means "Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down"

I always think of those words now when having a bad day at work...

Cheers

SHV · « **Reply #32 on:** 5 Jul 2012, 07:46 pm »

"Eat your dinner..children are starving in Korea"...my sister got "children starving in Russia"...different time, different war. I think that my sister also got the "guilt trip" about English children being bombed and going hungry.

Steve

alexone · « **Reply #33 on:** 5 Jul 2012, 08:32 pm »

when i was a little boy we had fish for dinner one day and my grandma said to me:"if you eat the fish's eyes they will come out at your butt and stay there forever"!

maaaaaan, that was scary

al.

sebrof · « **Reply #34 on:** 5 Jul 2012, 08:50 pm »

Some people are not happy unless they're not happy.

PRELUDE · « **Reply #35 on:** 5 Jul 2012, 09:01 pm »

Quote from: launche on 5 Jul 2012, 01:26 pm

Best advice I've ever gotten in my entire life.

My father told me "All women are crazy son, all of them even your mother, it's important for you to understand this so that you don't think that you're crazy".

Your father is a gentleman.

ec · « **Reply #36 on:** 5 Jul 2012, 09:37 pm »

Quote

You can bring a horse to water but you can't make him drink!!!

or "beating a dead horse" I combine them:

"You can bring a horse to water but you can't make him drink even if you beat him till his dead" I use that one at work at times for specific situations when people are supposed to do things they don't (intentionally eg to avoid work, lazy etc).

Also:
"can't teach an old dog new tricks"
"shoemakers children have no shoes"

werd · « **Reply #37 on:** 5 Jul 2012, 09:55 pm »

Remember when you could feed a family of 5 for $5 at Mcdonalds.

thunderbrick · « **Reply #38 on:** 5 Jul 2012, 09:57 pm »

When WE were kids we walked a mile to school in the deep snow. Uphill both ways.

95Dyna · « **Reply #39 on:** 6 Jul 2012, 05:01 pm »

When looking for something in the wrong place, "you're barking up the wrong tree"

When attempting something that is virtually impossible or very frustrationg, "your're pissing up a rope".