Old sayings that finally make sense.

[ElevenBravo]

I remember hearing a lot of sayings when I was younger... Pfft! What a stupid thing, these grown ups say.

Well, I guess now that Im 45, I can consider myself a grown up and these "old" sayings make a LOT of sense to me!!

Ill start off with a few, Im sure you will remind me of a few I have forgotten or some Ive never heard, so post up
your old saying, that makes perfect sense when you got older.


Waste not, want not

A rolling stone gathers no moss

Cut the damn lights out, your wasting electricity!

Get out of the shower, your wasting hot water!

Follow the Golden Rule

An apple a day keeps the doctor away

There are more I cant remember off cuff so Ill follow up later.. Nite Nite & Happy New Year!


EB

[Evolver]

The one that's popular that I've learned to dislike with our current economy is... "Go with the flow" Sorry but... "Dead fish go with the flow":p

Here a few that I like,
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Reap what you sow.
You make the bed that you sleep in. How do you sleep?
If you going to be stupid, you better be tough.

[Echo2]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Work smart....not hard.

Never trust a politician.

Keep your friends close.....and your enemies even closer.

Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.

and not an old timer saying....but relevant....

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

[4suchatimeasthis]

"Because I'm your Mother, and I said so!"

"I hope someday you have a daughter, just like you"

"Better safe than sorry"

"Don't sow your wild oats, then pray for crop failure"

"You gotta make hay when the sun shines" (huh, wasn't even about making hay, go figure, lol)

"You think you're so damn smart, someday reality is gonna smack you upside the head, girl!" (I love you too, Mom!.....and you were right)

"Choose your battles"

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog"

"It's not good to have too much fun" (Dad's reasoning for never letting us go to movies, concerts, the mall, etc...He was convinced if we didn't do hard labor 6.5 days a week, we would grow up to be lazy, irresponsible reprobates)

"Dynamite comes in small packages" - this was a warning, that you were pissing off my Mom, who is very short and petite, yet shockingly strong and athletic. Don't mess with the short lady, chances are she can kick your ass.

[mitunnelrat]

and not an old timer saying....but relevant....

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Its been several years since I've read the book, and I haven't gone to see the movie, but I do believe you got that from Bilbo Baggins. Nice!

[Echo2]

Its been several years since I've read the book, and I haven't gone to see the movie, but I do believe you got that from Bilbo Baggins. Nice!

Yes....Mr Baggins

[bacpacker]

One I've just read on here and am trying to live up to.

"I can sleep when the wind blows."

[Stormfeather]

"This going to hurt me a lot more than its going to hurt you. . . "

Right before the ass spanking.

[izzyscout21]

Children should be seen and not heard..........

[Echo2]

Children should be seen and not heard..........

:)......heh heh heh....

[Willie51]

One I've just read on here and am trying to live up to.

"I can sleep when the wind blows."

BP, I do live by it! :cool:

[Katrina]

don't know if this is still true
A penny saved is a penny earned
Judging by the number I keep finding on the ground, nobody believes it anymore. I get about 20-30 dollars worth a year and that doesn't include the pseudo silver coins I find.

[Willie51]

"You reap what you sow"
"Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, son"
"What goes around comes around"
"You get more with honey than you do vinegar"
"Carry a turd around in your pocket long enough, and you get used to it"
"Don't throw your pearls down before the swine"
"This too shall pass"

and my three favorites of course are.... "Don't tell everything you know", "Don't wrestle with pigs; you'll get all muddy and the pigs will love it! and "I sleep when the wind blows"

[Willie51]

The one that's popular that I've learned to dislike with our current economy is... "Go with the flow" Sorry but... "Dead fish go with the flow":p


Right on buddy....I love it!!!! I've never been a dead fish. :cool:

[Echo2]

Be True.

[Grumpy Old Man]

Don't criticize someone until you have walked a mile in his moccasins.

Be grateful for what you have.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

You get out of something exactly what you put into it.

And the Boy Scout motto: Be Prepared!

[ANEURYSM]

My Grandmother

" Dont touch that, you dont know where it has been"

[AlphaTea]

Dont cook bacon in the nude.

[Echo2]

Dont cook bacon in the nude.

Amen to that....:eek:

[4suchatimeasthis]

Dont cook bacon in the nude.

Yeah, you have to at least wear an apron. Duh ;)

[msomnipotent]

You'll poke your eye out!
It's only funny until someone looses an eye.
Stop chasing her with a knife. You'll fall and poke your eyes out.

My sisters and I "played rough". A lot.


No one likes a bitter pill. I had no idea what that meant until one of my friends turned into a bitter pill.

[Echo2]

Judge not lest the be judged

[TEOTWAWKI13]

Bunch of good ones...

How bout, the south's gonna do it again.
Wait til you have kids of your own.
You can tell alot about a person by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

[ElevenBravo]

Nice additions... Thanks for the participation!

Two more from me, though they are similar...

You can judge a man by the way he treats his wife

You can judge a man by the way he treats his dog

EB

[Willie51]

"Behind every sucessful man is a great woman"

[msomnipotent]

I can't believe I forgot my mother's favorite, which was, "You will eat it if you are hungry enough".

She was not known for her cooking skills.

[ElevenBravo]

True that! I remember getting a bag of generic dog food that the dog didnt necessarily like. The wife told me so when I can in the house with it... "She gets hungry enough, she will eat it....". Same goes for kids. HA HA

EB

[greg48]

my dad always say's "colder'n a well diggers ass..." don't know where it came from, when your a kid it's funny, but you are still wondering how cold that is?

[4suchatimeasthis]

my dad always say's "colder'n a well diggers ass..." don't know where it came from, when your a kid it's funny, but you are still wondering how cold that is?



That's funny, my mom would always say "colder than a coal diggers ass", or, her other favorite, "colder than a witches tit".....which meant it was roughly -20, and dad got to stay home from work, he was a logger.

It's still a mystery how my parents managed to stay married, my dad is the most straight laced, dignified, Sunday school teaching prude you ever met, and my mom swears like a sailor and smokes like a chimney, lives on coffee, and takes "brutally honest" to a new level. Dad wanted us girls to never cut our hair and only wear skirts and long dresses, and mom wore tight blue jeans out of spite. She wore the pants, in more ways than one, lol.

[ElevenBravo]

4such, I enjoyed your story. Thanks for the share.

Anyone thats done hard work out in the cold & damp, like construction... Knows exactly how cold a well digger's ass actually is! Mine has been that cold on several occasions! Dont forget us old grunts, being in the field for extending fun camping out can be a brute on the body! (I think Im starting to pay for it now, like... both shoulders rotator cuff repairs, arthur ritus in both hands, etc...)

EB

[Katrina]

My pop would say "The hurried I go the farther behind I get"