My mom was a hard working but quiet woman,
her main mode of teaching us was through one liners, these are some of them, you'll recall the endings as you see them...
1.. a stitch in time
2.. birds of a feather
3.. a rolling stone
4..waste not
5..beauty is as


Maybe you each have more to share ?

"Cuz I said so."

Louisa

"Do you want your face to freeze that way?"

Louisa and Donna.. i had to burst out laughing, because those two were also said to us... (finally we gave up asking why about something, the answer was always...'because i said so"..
here's a couple more...
"the squeaky wheel always gets the grease"
"what's good for the goose, is good for the gander"

"Wait till your father gets home."

You're gonna put someone's eye out!

"And if you're friends jump off the O'Neal bridge, would you do that too?"

"What were you thinking?"

"Don't talk with your mouth full, did you hear me?"

"Cuz I'm the Mother, that's why"

"Ask you Daddy"

JJ

"There before the grace of God go I."

"Because I'm the father and I said so."

"You haven't walked a mile in her shoes."

"Always make good choices, life won't be perfect but it will be a lot better if you do."

"If it feels like it's wrong, stop and think, then don't do it."

Just stuff I'm always telling my kids.

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"

JJ

"Are your socks clean?"

"God is watching you!"

"Be sure to put on clean underwear. You never know when you might be in a wreck."

(Isn't THAT reassuring?? )

Donna

I've never forgotten the one about the clean underwear!!! Hubby never heard that one when he was growing up...draw your own conclusion.

I'm sure you trained him, Eagle, and now he always wears clean ones when he leaves the house!! ....I hope....

When it was cold "Put on a hat".

"Hope you face, don't freeze that way".

"You're gonna get your name up"

JJ

"God helps those who help themselves."
"you're lucky to be born in America."

Don't forget to write!

"If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."

[ December 13, 2005, 10:45 AM: Message edited by: Dotsie ]

Yes, I have heard some of those noted above growing up...also heard
When my father wrecked my car, and I needed a new one: "can't get blood from a stone"
"If you had to wear your shoes on your head, you would keep them clean"
"Eat everything on your plate, people are starving in China" (so, send the food to china!)
and the one I really remember, I just can't
say it here !!!

When my Mother said to me one day, "Eat your food! Don't you know there are starving kids in China?" I said, "Name one." I couldn't sit down for a whole week.

Another classic, "Don't chew with your mouth open. You sound like a cow with his foot stuck in the mud."

JJ

Ha ha, JJ, you're a jewel.
Newfoundlanders have an accent and a way with words. I occassionally heard...Ya gat da face only a mudder could luv.

And on the china thing...in same Newfie accent(me) "Well, I wants ta live there, then."
Whomp!

chick

You guys gave me the first laugh of the day!!! Keep em comin!!!! JJ, you haven't changed one bit! I can just imagine the look on your mother's face when you said "name one"....hahahahaha

Chick- didn't know you were from Newfoundland. Would love to hear that accent. I love accents....

Here's my dad: "Jo, if you were a goose, you wouldn't know which way to fly!" HUH??? I felt real bad about the kids in China - I'd start eating that okra and wonder if the little Chinese kids gagged too.

o yeah,

Here's my Mother standing at the top of the stairs to the basement (where Dad was always working on something or other) "JAAAAAAAAAAAAACK, come up here to these kids!!!!!" We'd scatter. Dad never got up the stairs. But once. oooooo, still remember that one.

Big philosophy on life from Dad : "Ain't no one ever said it was fair, JO!".....

Oh yeahhhh....we use to say that about the turnip too...

How bout this one, "Honey, your Mamma didn't raise no fool....no sir ree...you're self made." My Uncle use to tease me with that one. It took years for me to realize it WASN'T a compliment.

JJ

Here are a few dandies I heard growing up...

If it ain't soup, its nuts.....

Do you think money grows on trees?...

If it weren't for bad luck we'd have no luck at all...

You seem to be growing in leaps and bounds...

Inch by inch, its a cinch...

If I had a penny for everytime you did that I'd be a rich woman...

Sometimes you're as dumb as a rock...

A penny is as a penny does...

Stop crying, do you want your face to freeze like that?...

Close that door, were you born in a barn...

What, do you think we're made of money child...

and the best one:
Eat your spaghetti there are starving kids in Italy...

Those starving kids sure do get around...

[ March 19, 2006, 10:32 PM: Message edited by: chatty lady ]

How about "it's chicken one day, feathers the next."

smile

With five kids always in and out:

"Close the door. We aren't heating the whole neighborhood."

One of Mom's wiser sayings:

"When there's a will, there's a way." I can still hear her saying that. It's partly the reason for my determination in life. I've always had a strong will.

And I've learned by having a couple strong willed children that we aren't the easiest to raise.

Money doesn't grow on trees is a biggie!
Today, for xmas, my kids still get a small aritificial tree in a box..with you guessed it,
money attached.... guess I never wanted to believe that one!!

My Father [who is dutch] always used to say if us kids said or did anything stupid
"Up here for thinking" [pointing to his head]
"Dowwn there for dancing" [pointing to his feet]

If she keeps cryin' give her something to cry about.

Crocodile tears is all they are.

Beggers can't be choosers. <--- ALL THE TIME, I hate that saying now, but have started to use it, does that mean I'm getting old???? lol

And this my Father gave me one year..gosh I was like 12...
two men looked out thru prison bars,
the one saw mud, the other stars.

Told me I would understand it one day. I did, but it was REALLY stupid to give that to a 12 yr old.

Jama
stands for Janine Marie

Dotsie
"There before the Grace of God"....I was told this and so were my childen told so by me.

"We are all human beings".....

"Tears before bedtime"

Mountain Ash

for relationships

"If you can't be the tablecloth don't be the dish towel"
"Don't be like the Spaniards and kill all the little Indians"

Hey! You had to know my mother! Can't say I've never been the dish towel but I haven't killed many Indians!

"I'm gonna get the belt"!

Mountain, Mom always said , "There before the grace of God go I." Now I say it.

Jane, I've never heard either of them.

Speaking of relationships:
Now my mom never said this but I've heard and read it:
Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?
Any of your mothers say that?

"Life isn't fair".

From Dad: Tell that to the Marines...

From Mom: Save your breath to cool your porridge

Dotsie,

The cow and the milk is the same meaning as the dish towel and the table cloth. Just grew up further in the country! The Indians meant not to take advantage of others just becaue you could.

Dotsie, and you know the corollary:

Why buy the whole pig just to get a little sausage?

HA! I couldn't resist. Hope that wasn't too risque!

Since when has sausage been risque? I must be eating at the wrong restaurants....only kidding Meredith, had to say it!

I heard my girlfriends mother say this to her a million times when we were in highshool;

I'll slap you so hard you won't know whether to s--t or go blind.

Here are some from my mother who taught me all I know:

If your going to kill each other, do it outside, I just finished cleaning...

If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week...

Because I said so, thats why...

If you fall from that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me...

Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about...

SHUT your mouth, and eat your supper...

Will you look at this dirt on the BACK of your neck...

You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone...

I brougfht you into this world, and I can take you out...

Just wait until your father gets home...

If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they will stay that way...

Put your sweater on, don't you think I know when you're cold?...

When that lawn mower cuts your toes off, don't come running to me...

If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow...

You're just like your father...

Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?...

When you get to be my age, you'll understand...

One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you...

There are probably more but I can't remember them!

If you can't say something good, don't say anything.

It's better not to say anything, than say the wrong thing.

Here's a funny: "The secrecy of my job does not permit me to know what I am doing."

Will Rogers said, "We should live in such a way, that we would not be ashamed to sell our family parrot to the town gossip."

Luv ya,
brose

I heard it this way Meredith,
Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?

And we were always threatened with this
Do I have to get the wooden spoon?
We'd run but I don't remember ever being hit by it....:)

In my house my mother could never catch us TVC but I did get grazed ever so often, OUCH!!!!

Meredith, not too risque...and I have read that before. Too funny!

I always remember Mom asking ,"who ate the last piece?" And of course, none of us would own up to it. The reason she asked was because we always left the box, plate, container in the same spot...EMPTY!

Best advice my mom ever gave me...be true to yourself! Hey mom's get it right ever once in a while!!

How about, let your conscience be your guide?

Bad bad Anne, but oh so funny and true too,unfortunately...

"Everything has an end, except a hotdog; it has two."

DH's Dad always used to say...That's the way the monkey shakes his nuts....
I hope that one wasn't too risque.

Hey could mean coconuts, right???

Anne,

Now you tell me...now I know why I have such a warped sense of humor!

Funny what brings things once forgotten to mind again...this morning while waiting for mny tea water and getting impatient, I remembered something my Gran use to say, "A watched pot never boils."

I have been reading this post for several days now and can never think of anything and then just when I do, what do you know, someone else's mom said it to.
Weren't any of you ever told:
Children should be seen and not heard.
Don't think I have seen that one, yet.
Anno

I think this was one I heard from my mother and there were so many of the we could write our own book of Quotes . The right hand always knows what the left hand is doing . Ha.
If you drink coffee your skin will turn brown . I haven't taned yet and I am still waiting for that to happen .

Be careful what you say for it will come back to you . Or something like that Who laughs last laughs the hardest .

Renee

Anno, I've heard that and I can't stand that one. We have always allowed our children a voice, even if grandparents didn't think they should have one.

How about last one done is a rotten egg. I mean who really cares if you're a rotten egg, but it motivated us to get things done.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

After dropping food all down the front of whatever I was wearing, my Daddy use to say either

1) I see you've eaten
or
2) You look good in everything you eat

He was a nut!

JJ

He sounds as if he were a delightful man JJ. My grandad would say when we kids were too messy wjile eating, "I don't know whether to throw you in with the wash, or eat you!" Then he chased us as we ran squeeling for my grandma all through the house. Ah, memories, sigh!!!

My mamaw told me this very poignant line after I came home from a date when I was 16 and feeling weird about a boy who tried to go too far (he didn't get anywhere with me but him trying had freaked me out)...I'd come in the front door and sat immediately down in the love seat and sat there looking perplexed...she came over to me and asked me if there was anything I wanted to talk about...I silently shook my head 'no.' She smiled at me and said,
"If you can't come home and tell me...you shouldn't be doing it."
Then she hugged me and walked away...she was so smart.

OH Dee, that is awsome! how sweet is that?

my mom was always telling me "GET GET GET".....still does it sometimes......lol
I love it!

I am the baby still!....

Nancy

If if's and but's were candy and nuts, wouldn't we all have a Merry Christmas

I once asked my daughter when she was very young, "How many times have I told you to not do that?" and she replied..."about 30". I had to laugh.

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

mothers curse, When you grow up i hope you have one just like you

It matters not whether you win or lose,
It matter whether I win or lose....