Favorite Sayings

[Brucom]

Dad said, "The man that's talking isn't learning anything."

[dfear]

My Mom's favorite expression was "You've got the same pants to get glad in that you got mad in."
My Dad's theory of discipline was "For every action, there is an opposite and at least equal re-action. Think of those re-actions before you act."

[tubatooter1940]

My wife's mother would say,"You don't believe horns will hook do you?"
Also, if company was leaving too soon, "Did ya'll just come over for a chunk of fire?"

[tbn.al]

My dear sweet grandmother from Delight, Arkansas had many memorable ones. Just realized I mixed up her two favorite sayings. Half of each makes no sense at all.
1.If she really disliked someone, she might say, "I wouldn't spit in his face if his guts was afire!"
2. Or "I wouldn't pitch him hay if he was a horse in a concrete pasture!"

[ken k]

Nanny used to use some old standards...

you make a better door than a window...

close the door your heating the outside....

when I would fall and "hurt" myself. Come here and I 'll pick you up...

Tables were made for glasses, not (you can figure the rest out)

ken "Nanny was a real firecracker" k

[LoyalTubist]

If you love something, turn it loose...

If it returns to you, it's yours forever...

If it doesn't,

HUNT IT DOWN AND KILL IT SO NO ONE ELSE GETS IT!

[tbn.al]

My uncle Pat, a 30 year USN vetran who taught me to cuss, used to stand up and announce to guests who had stayed too late, "Honey, let's go on to bed, these folks might want to go home."

[iiipopes]

When getting out of hand as a child, my grandfather would say:

Son, sit down
before you fall down
and knock something else down

To which I have added,

Or get knocked down and roll around.

[tubatooter1940]

I'll never forget and I have quoted often the statement my mother-in-law once made about my wifey - poo.
"You're meaner than a sack of rattlesnakes."