Mom's favorite sayings

[noodleroo]

'Let your conscience be your guide'... Gaaahhhh! I hate that!

 

[sourland]

Good one Noodleroo. I used that on our daughter once.

 

[maple]

"Jesus Jimmy."

Then when she'd call dad, "James," dad would tell her, "I thought my name was Jesus Jimmy?"

 

[speckledhen]

The only thing I remember my mother saying was, "You're going to send me right to Milledgeville!". Milledgeville, GA is where a state mental institution is.

 

[HHandbasket]

My grandmother had a good one that has stuck in my head:

"When a task is once begun, do not stop until it's done.
And whether your task is large or small, do it well or not at all."

 

[dawg53]

"I know what you're doing, I've got an eye in the back of my head." One of my mom's favorites.

 

[EmtheFishLady]

"they're going to hell in a hand-basket"

 

[sourland]

Dawg, my Mom too, and I swear she did. How did they know what we were up to? One of the drawbacks of growing up in a small country tow. (Drawbacks was definately tongue in cheek.)

 

[Laurajean]

Can we vary from mothers only?

My mother used to say "Haste makes waste", although what I heard the most was "Don't be smart young lady", to which I would defiantly reply "Fine! I'll be stupid!"

My Gram would say "Isn't he an odd duck...." about someone strange. She also would say "Yummy-Hum-Dummy!" every time she saw some sort of tasty dessert.


But my father had the best ones....

"Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades"

"Six one, half dozen of the other"

"I put a roof over your head and clothes on your back"

"It's a good thing his head is screwed on or he'd lose that too"

And then he had a variety of:

"He's one sandwich short of a picnic"
"His elevator doesn't go to the top floor"
"The lights are on but no one's home"
"He's not the sharpest tack in the box"
"He's one card short of a full deck"

 

[kburen]

I still smile to think about my grandma (I only got to see her 2 or 3 times a year because they lived 7 hours away) telling us to "get outta the road"! When we were in the kitchen and she was cooking

Mom & Dad

"Well, if you did it right the FIRST time...."