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When we were all kids (yes, I know, some of us still are) our parents had sayings that we still remember to this day and use them whenever we can. They were short and sweet and if you had the slightest bit of common sense you could get the point they were trying to make. These sayings vary from region to region. Here's mine:

Son, stay out of grown folks' business.

Add yours.

My dad:

You can lead a horse to water, but why not ride it?

From my Dad:

In most games of chance only one person is taking a chance.

From my Dad: You can spend X dollars, buy good tools, take care of them, and have them for a long time. Or, you can spend 1/4 X dollars on cheap tools, 100 times, and spend ten times more money on tools. And don't loan them out. Either type.

See later post. I messed this one up.

"Son........If you had another neuron, you'd have a synapse!" - Dad

"Alway s do the next right thing. If you can't think of the next right thing, then think of the next wrong thing and then.....don't do it!" - Dad

From my dad after we argued about something...

"Boy, I sure wish I was 16 again and knew everything!"

I always hated that, but it sure did end the argument

Rick F wrote:From my dad after we argued about something...

"Boy, I sure wish I was 16 again and knew everything!"

I always hated that, but it sure did end the argument

That sure hits the nail on the head, doesn't it? I have lost both my mom and dad, but hardly a day goes by that I am not reminded of something my dad taught me. I was a very reluctant and slow learner, but I'm still learning from him. Usually I find myself saying to myself, "Damn, he was right, again!" I hate it when that happens. I still want him to be wrong about things. Weird, isn't it?

TubaRay wrote:
<snip>... hardly a day goes by that I am not reminded of something my dad taught me. I was a very reluctant and slow learner, but I'm still learning from him. Usually I find myself saying to myself, "Damn, he was right, again!" I hate it when that happens. I still want him to be wrong about things. Weird, isn't it?

Yep. I remember coming home on leave from the service (back in the 60s) after being gone for more than a year. I said to Dad, "You and Mom seemed to have smartened up while I was gone". My Dad laughed. He knew what I was saying. I lost my Dad 15 years ago. I still miss his advice (some of it anyway).

In college I was a civilian employee of the TX Dept. of Public Safety. One of the finest people I've ever known, the late Sgt. Wynn Williams, often said:

"Son, don't let your alligator mouth overload your tadpole ***."

He also said:

"If you do that again, there's gonna be a wholesale ***-whippin' and you're gonna provide all the ***."

He taught a bunch of smart-mouth 20-somethings some valuable lessons about life.

Uttered by the great Chick Williamson, Master Machinist with the Bosert Corporation in Utica, NY for 56 years and my grandfather after watching my cousin and I jump off the roof of the house with an umbrella and injure ourselves after watching Mary Poppins:

"You two are dumber than a box full of dead monkeys"

At which point he picked us up, one under each arm and took us to the "Doctor" (a vet) to have my lacerated face sewn up from where I hit the porch and my cousins arm set from where I fell on it. He made us work in the garden the rest of the afternoon "just because". I miss him.

Chuck"who remembers how much that shot of novacaine in my cheek hurts TO THIS DAY"Jackson

"My dead neighbor tried that once. Once... "

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

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."

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?"

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!"

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

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!

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."

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.