Sayings and Truths we knew as kids

thunderbrick · « **Reply #100 on:** 18 Jul 2012, 03:42 am »

"The only people who like people are cannibals."

gamgee · « **Reply #101 on:** 18 Jul 2012, 07:27 am »

best advice I got a long time ago:"Listen attentively to everybody's advice, but do things your way."

lonewolfny42 · « **Reply #102 on:** 18 Jul 2012, 07:39 am »

Mr. Tanner...

Tell your grandson this.....

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life...

James Tanner · « **Reply #103 on:** 18 Jul 2012, 10:02 am »

Quote from: lonewolfny42 on 18 Jul 2012, 07:39 am

Mr. Tanner...

Tell your grandson this.....

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life...

I like that one

james

Guy 13 · « **Reply #104 on:** 18 Jul 2012, 10:28 am »

My teacher use to tell us:
Don't do what I do.
Do what I tell you to do !

Devil Doc · « **Reply #105 on:** 18 Jul 2012, 10:45 am »

OH My! How could I have forgotten these two. The Nuns used them over and over. "Idle hands are the Devil's workshop", and of course, "A word to the wise should be sufficient."

Doc

jjc1 · « **Reply #106 on:** 18 Jul 2012, 01:54 pm »

Sell high...Buy low

PRELUDE · « **Reply #107 on:** 20 Jul 2012, 01:08 am »

The masses are asses.

FullRangeMan · « **Reply #108 on:** 20 Jul 2012, 01:13 am »

- Even a fool looks wise when keep silence.

- The hope is the last that dies, your mother in law too.

- Who wait, always reach. (a boring one)

Stu Pitt · « **Reply #109 on:** 20 Jul 2012, 05:11 am »

"It's better to keep your mouth shut and have people think you're an idiot than open your mouth and remove all doubt."

Guess I just ignored that bit of advice yet again.

rob80b · « **Reply #110 on:** 20 Jul 2012, 11:15 am »

or

" Make sure brain is engaged before moving tongue"

Stu Pitt · « **Reply #111 on:** 20 Jul 2012, 01:45 pm »

My grandfather shaking his head in amazement and walking away from my father:
"To be young and dumb."

My father shaking his head and uttering under his breath in response:
"To be old and senile."

When I was about 13, my father told me to shoot him if he ever turned into his father. I haven't had the heart to pull the trigger.

Goosepond · « **Reply #112 on:** 20 Jul 2012, 03:01 pm »

This is supposed to be the line:

"I wish I knew then what I know now"

But I like this one better:

"I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then"

Gene

sfraser · « **Reply #113 on:** 20 Jul 2012, 03:42 pm »

My Dad used to say " Youth is a wonderful thing, too bad it is wasted on the young".

Good things come to those who wait....as long as those who wait, work like hell while they wait"

Dr.Cmnsky · « **Reply #114 on:** 20 Jul 2012, 03:47 pm »

My parents were scientifically illiterate so I grew up hearing lots of "truths" that turned out to be complete nonsense. You guys were lucky...

thunderbrick · « **Reply #115 on:** 20 Jul 2012, 03:50 pm »

What does science have to do with sayings and "truths?"

What about this?

"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement."

Goosepond · « **Reply #116 on:** 21 Jul 2012, 02:03 pm »

The older we get, the better we used to be.

Gene

PRELUDE · « **Reply #117 on:** 4 Aug 2012, 09:19 pm »

Too much of anything is never enough.

doorman · « **Reply #118 on:** 4 Aug 2012, 11:11 pm »

"When in doubt, do it"
don

Elizabeth · « **Reply #119 on:** 5 Aug 2012, 08:50 am »

Any negative comment about food was greeted with:
"Someday you will eat shit and like it"
Sorry that is all i got for wisdom from my Mother.. I must have heard that a hundred times..

When i was 22 my Father did once ask me "Are you getting any" as we sat waiting for Mom to get out of church. (i was on vacation, visiting them) I did not respond.
That was it for my Father.
(When i was maybe 10 years old, i was going to sell a toy to a friend. She told me she had asked her dad, and he said to offer me just half. i was thunderstruck, not about the money, but that she actually spoke with her father. I NEVER forgot that..it was such a shock.)

Some kids are luckier, with good parents ... than others.