What sayings did your parents tell you as a kid?

[Whispering Winds]

Idle hands are the work of the devil.

Busy hands are happy hands.

If God had intended man to fly, a frog wouldn't be bumping his butt on the ground. (never did get that one, really!)

Wouldn't last longer than a paper shirt in a bear fight.

Happier than a hog in mud.

Does a bear poop in the woods?

Does a fat dog fart?

Madder than a wet hen.

Runs like a turkey.

Meaner than a one-eyed snake.

That coffee is strong enough to walk.

This coffee tastes like jerk coffee, jerked through the grounds twice!

Weak as a cat's back.



And, you know most of them are true!!!!! My mom was great at old sayings, I have been writing them down, as I remember them, and use them myself all the time. . .they are wonderful!!!

 

[buck-wild-chick]

"ill give you something to cry about"

 

[luvchicks8]

Life is like a hallway full of doors open as many as you can like it or not you will learn somthing from the experiance.

 

[dixiechick]

My dad...a man of very few SERIOUS words, said to me..."apirins are the best birth control! They are 100% effective. You have to put them between your knees...and not let them hit the ground."

To this day, can't take a Tylenol without thinking about that.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

My Mom used to say when my sister and I were fighting we sounded like two cats with their tails tied together on fire.
She would also say "if a frog had wings he'd fly instead of hopping along skinning his butt on rocks. And, if wishes were horses we would all ride.

 

[wombat]

My mom would say:
"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride"

My neighbor would say:
"If wishes were wings a frog wouldn't bump his a

on the ground when he hopped"

... and mom had the ever popular "Someday you'll thank me for this"

 

[Holly O]

My Grandmother:

Your Cruising for a Bruising.

Your Aching for a shaking.

I say a lot of things My mother said ....lol

If you Get hurt I'm not taking you to the hospital.

If you do not put that down, it will be shoved where the sun don't shine.

Young Wiper snapper.

And several that have already been mentioned.

 

[Whispering Winds]

Crazy as a pet coon.

When someone would throw something away that was still good, my mom would say, "there will be a day coming when they wished they had kept that", and she was almost always right!

 

[codybird]

AGGRAVATE, COOPERATE.

Two brothers and a sister.

 

[vickie2133]

When you have kids they will be 10 times worse than you.

I was a tome boy and would help dad work around, he would always tell me righty tighty, and lefty lucy, and I still can loose a bolt with out thinking that. My kids use that same saying,

That is finer than frogs hair.

This will hurt me more than it will hurt me.