Mom would say . . .

[kfclark]

OK Folks, I hope you have some fun with this.

Please tell us some of the sayings your parents or grandparents used to say.  If there is a story behind it, add that too.

Whenever we would say, "I wish ________________", Mom would say, "If wishes were horses, then peasants would ride."

[sixdogsmom]

My grandma would say: When it rains with the sun shining, the devil is beating his wife and it will surely rain tomorrow! (And it usually does)!

[sixdogsmom]

Grandma also said: (I always loved this one!), It's enough to puke a dog off a gut wagon! Now I ask you, how gross that must be?  UhOH! 

[Roma Jean Turner]

  Grandma would say  "Idle hands are the devil's playmate."  and  "Praise the Lord and pass the amunition."

I love this one....."You tend to your knittin' and I'll tend to mine."  She was not much interested in anyone telling her what to do. A point of view she passed on to me. 

[kfclark]

An elderly relative once made us chicken and dumplings with Weevil infested flour. When we figured out that the black specks were NOT pepper flakes, we were grossed out.  To which she replied, "You kids would swallow a camel and strain at a flea!"

I was not quick witted or disrepectful enough at the time to say, "Well yeah, if your gonna feed us fleas, we will "strain" at them."

[Rudy Taylor]

"If brains were made of gold, you couldn't buy enough gasoline to drive an ant's motorcycle halfway around a bb."

[Judy Harder]

well, I will try again.......seems my computer didn't like my last effort and  froze.

Oh dear, here we go again.

One year for Christmas I was given a parakeet.
Of course, I was in school and Mom being a homemaker stayed
home with the bird.

Seems I was in trouble  (normal teenager???) and when the bird learned to talk
he said "JUDY" just as loud as he could...........guess Mom had to get after  me a lot.......ya think?
never could get him to say anything else....but we all thought it was funny. Well, mom may not have.
I am sure she wanted to pull someones hair out..........mine.??

[flo]

I was raised by my grandmother and she had many "old wives sayings" but one has always stuck with me.  I mentioned one time as a young girls that I thought a friend of the family was pretty.  Grandma said "Beauty is as beauty does".  I thought her meaning was beauty is only skin deep.  Found out later what this "friend" done for a living.  Never forgot that and always look "inside" when forming an opinion of someone.  Going along the same line she wrote in my autograph book "Choose not your friends from outward show, for feathers float but pearls lie low".

[archeobabe]

Judy Judy has a couple lines that her father uses to say:  "Beauty fades, dumb is forever; Don't pee of my shoes and tell me it raining."

[Tobina+1]

My grandma always has some saying for everything, but I can't think of any of them right now!
My mom always signs her cards and notes to us, "I love you more than I love ____".  And it's usually something funny or something she talked about in her card.  The last card was "I love you more than I love looking forward to warm temperatures!"  I wished I would have started a book; it'd be a cute Mother's day gift!