old sayings please add yours

[kawalabear]

sayings from my grandparents.

drop a sharp knife, a sharp man is comming to visit. from the direction its pointing.

drop a dull knife , a dull man is comming to visit.

drop a dish cloth, a dirty person is comming to visit.

drop a spoon a woman is comming to visit.


going to beat you with a wet noodle.

and i was always " an angle with wings"

gotta love grandparents !

 

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[bildon]

Keep your mouth shut and your bowels open.but my Dad also made Moonshine,

 

[Felinepeachy]

My papa used to always say, "Procrastination is the thief of time"

My dad would always tell me that it was cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.

My grandmother used to warn us when we were little girls that if we slept with dogs we would get fleas.

 

[kawalabear]

i was telling my friend what i had posted and she add this:

her grandfather said everyone now days was crazy; when he grew up you ate in the house and went to the bathroom out side, now days everyone wants to eat out side and go to the bathroom in the house.

i had to clean it up a bit for posting

 

[Blacksheep]

No notable old sayings but my grandmother almost always ended her sentences with "accch ya! an`so?"

 

[mikeofaustin]

I often make my own up when I can find another way to say something. Yesterday I used, "Don't swat at mosquitoes when a gator's got you by the leg".

And, I don't claim to own it, but I swear I used this phrase for a long long time... "You can't polish a turd".

 

[Burnt Chimney]

sayings from my grandparents.

drop a sharp knife, a sharp man is comming to visit. from the direction its pointing.

drop a dull knife , a dull man is comming to visit.

drop a dish cloth, a dirty person is comming to visit.

drop a spoon a woman is comming to visit.


going to beat you with a wet noodle.

and i was always " an angle with wings"

gotta love grandparents !

Every Spoon in the House is on the floor and it's getting late.,,,,,,,What's Up?

 

[peacock]

Sugar and Fudge. My Grandmother always said. Took me a few years to figure it out. God bless here for trying. She was such a good women.

 

[Ray S S]

You have to take a Dutchman as he means, not what he says.

We grow too soon old and too late smart.

It's colder than a welldigger's nose in the Klondike.

That's so long ago that the Big Dipper was still just a cup.

It's so hot out that the Robins are pulling the worms out of the ground with potholders to keep
from burning them.

It's so hot, the farmers are feeding their chickens crushed ice to keep from laying hard-boiled eggs.

It was so windy I saw a chicken lay the same egg three times.

A cat washing it's face means company's comming.

Sometimes in a crew of carpenters when a new guy starts, and it's his first day on the job, one of the carpenters
will tell him to keep his eye out for any nails with the head on the wrong end. He will tell him not to throw it
away because it is for the other side of the house.

 

[simplemaninpr]

It's not what you have but, how you use it!

You can't fix stupid!

He's dumber than a box of nails!

I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop!

O' really?

Whatever.....

 

[mamabear]

My Aunt Dorcas always said that I was "cuter than Gods little catfish"
Dad said a buzzard sh*# me on a rock & the sun hatched me. Hmm no wonder I'm in counseling!
& my favorite, scared the puddin outta me!

 

[lonesomebob]

My dear old dad always remember, there ain't no free lunc, and the piper must be paid. and Go ahead stupid and it will bite you in the ass.

 

[truckinbutch]

That child is the product of bad breeding and poor raising .

 

[travel]

when it thunders with the sun shinning the devil is beating his wife. or there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

 

[rockhound]

He's crookeder than a barrel of fish hooks
He's dumber than a coal bucket
My saying---I am sleepier than a old hound dog
It's looks like it's coming a hen drownder
It's raining like a cow pi___ing on a flat rock

rockhound

 

[poorhunter78]

Rather be good than lucky, yer luck will runout someday.
I was born ready.
you are what yuh eat, thats why im not eatin.
boy you make a better door than you a window.

 

[bwilly36]

When staying up too late at night, dad would always come into my room early on a sat or sunday morning and tell me "If you can stay up with the owls, you can get up with the chickens."

 

[Silver Searcher]

Three of my favourites....

Thick as a Dockers Sandwich.

You can't educate Pork.

I have many faults, but being wrong isn't one of them.

SS

 

[Tubecity]

Here's a few;

I might have been born at night - but it wasn't last night.

It's so hot out, I saw a dog chasin' a cat & they were both walkin'.

Dumber than a sack of hammers.

And my favorite,

'My Mom might have raised some dumb kids, but they were my brother & my sister !

 

[Woodland Detectors]

It's drier than a popcorn fart in here.