Sayings and Truths we knew as kids

SteveFord · « **Reply #80 on:** 16 Jul 2012, 12:50 am »

No one mentioned the ever-popular, "This is going to hurt me a lot more than it will hurt you!"?

That one wasn't true.

And from my exasperated grandmother (referring to my grandfather): "What can't be cured must be endured" which is certainly the truth.

thunderbrick · « **Reply #81 on:** 16 Jul 2012, 02:48 am »

From my father, when he was WELL out of hearing range of my mother...........

"The creature that God intended to be man's mate didn't make it through the evolutionary process. We got something else instead."

Goosepond · « **Reply #82 on:** 16 Jul 2012, 02:06 pm »

Here's a good one I probably heard as a kid:

"Don't you go in that water until you learn to swim! But, Mamma...!"

Gene

PRELUDE · « **Reply #83 on:** 17 Jul 2012, 01:02 am »

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

John151 · « **Reply #84 on:** 17 Jul 2012, 02:13 am »

My grandfather used to say "more ....... than you can shake a stick at". I still have no idea what that means.

He was also big on "a penny saved is a penny earned" and "penny wise and pound foolish".

SoCalWJS · « **Reply #85 on:** 17 Jul 2012, 02:41 am »

I got this one after surgery during the removal of a certain object about a week later:

Me: "Is this going to hurt"?

Doctor: "Not me".

rob80b · « **Reply #86 on:** 17 Jul 2012, 02:44 am »

Well as my Dad always said when it came time to go to Sunday mass.

“Son it’s better to believe in God and find out there isn’t than not believe and find out there is” and he wasn’t even an audiophile!

rob80b · « **Reply #87 on:** 17 Jul 2012, 02:52 am »

"Never buy anything on sale that you would not pay full price for"

this_is_vv · « **Reply #88 on:** 17 Jul 2012, 06:22 am »

Don't try to eat 100$ steak while working on a min salary, keep your habits in orders

Goosepond · « **Reply #89 on:** 17 Jul 2012, 03:28 pm »

The best thing for the inside of a man is the outside of a horse - The Prez, ole Ronnie Reagan -

Gene

jjc1 · « **Reply #90 on:** 17 Jul 2012, 06:32 pm »

" Wait till your father gets home". Don't know why. My father never touched me. It was my mother mother who always chased me around the house and whacked me with the broom stick.

sfraser · « **Reply #91 on:** 17 Jul 2012, 06:38 pm »

A couple of years ago my dentist was building me a replacement crown with her CAD/lathe system. She obviously was not happy with the results as she was fitting it in my mouth, removing it and hand filing it, and then refitting it. After several attempts I smiled at her and said: "you know what the carpenters say?.....measure twice and cut once."

craig223 · « **Reply #92 on:** 17 Jul 2012, 06:47 pm »

When we would not eat our dinner, mom used to say "There are children in ____ country that would love to have that food." One night as a smart ass teenager I replied, "Well let's box it up and send it to them." Not the smartest thing I ever did...

Speedskater · « **Reply #93 on:** 17 Jul 2012, 07:14 pm »

At work, it was said of one company president:

"He would jump over a dollar bill to save a dime"

Doublej · « **Reply #94 on:** 18 Jul 2012, 01:18 am »

It's not the heat, it's the humidity!

spinner · « **Reply #95 on:** 18 Jul 2012, 01:33 am »

I don't mind dying ; I just don't want to be there when it happens!

FullRangeMan · « **Reply #96 on:** 18 Jul 2012, 01:49 am »

- To err is human.
- Faith moves mountains.
- The hurried eaten raw.
- You are too smart for your own good.
- The important thing is to compete.

milford3 · « **Reply #97 on:** 18 Jul 2012, 02:28 am »

" It's the same thing, only different."

PRELUDE · « **Reply #98 on:** 18 Jul 2012, 02:39 am »

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

PRELUDE · « **Reply #99 on:** 18 Jul 2012, 02:50 am »

History repeats itself.

I hope so,I want to go back in 80s