old sayings please add yours

[mamabear]

on gossip - go to a mountain top & release a thousand pieces of paper to fly in the wind, trying to catch them would be like trying to retrieve gossip you have spread. ( don't know if I got the point across, but I love love the message.)

 

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[AU24K]

You only go around once, get all the gusto that you can get

Sounds like the ad from Schlitz Beer....

Scott

 

[simonds]

One of Mark Twain's quotes,
A banker will gladly lend you his umbrella, but when it starts raining, then he wants it back

 

[Produce Guy]

You can always recognize a pioneer,they're the one with an arrow in their back.

 

[AU24K]

Not much of an "old saying," but it's what I say.

"I hope that at my funeral, more people came to celebrate my life and mourn my passing than the number of people who come just to make sure that I'm dead."


Scott

PS.
As a side note, I've always been interested in word and phrase etymology.
I would like to do an "interview" type study, akin to "Foxfire," and possibly co-author a publication on the subject...
But, I digress...

 

[RGINN]

Too many to list. We'd sometimes remark about all those Olathe wannabe cowboys we'd see that they were 'All hat and no cattle'.

 

[simonds]

At the atheists funeral, a friend said, "he is all dressed up but nowhere to go"

 

[Old Dog]

Too many to list. We'd sometimes remark about all those Olathe wannabe cowboys we'd see that they were 'All hat and no cattle'.

All buckle and no sand

 

[Mental Granny]

When I was younger and went to a bar I can't repeat what us girls said about wanna be cowboys (the drugstore/bar ones) ! Hehe!

 

[goldie1959]

my grand mother used to stand on her back porch and flap her apron and say she was(breaking the wind). i was six years old what did i know. she also made all our yeast bread and when she was kneading it she said it was( stiffer than a wedding nights pr @#$k) i was six years old what did i know. i just knew she was full blooded irish and talked different . goldie

 

[Woodland Detectors]

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.

We havent ever got fleas. but we sure get woken up a lot!

I like this one! Hi CAM!!!!!!

 

[Mental Granny]

My grandmaother use to tell me don't hold hands with boys you'll get pregnant!

 

[simonds]

My mother used to say, don't play with that thing, you will go blind.
I told her that I would only do it until I needed glasses

 

[Old Dog]

Never realised it until now how many old phrases I grew up with ...
that can't be posted here.

LOL

 

[AU24K]

Another "not an old saying," but one that I remind myself of frequently is...
"Yesterday is a memory, Today is a gift, and Tommorrow is promised to no one."

Scott

PS. I'm not sure if I saw this somewhere or I made it up after seeing something similar...Please let me know if you've seen this or something like it...
Thanks!
Best Wishes,
Scott

 

[Old Dog]

I heard something similar ...

Yesterday is history.
Don't wory about tomorrow, today has the problems and the solutions.


Coming into the house with a half dozen pheasants,
My grandma looks and says "You're supposed to shoot them on the wing."
She never said it again after I looked up at her and asked
"They can fly?"

 

[AU24K]

When I was a young pup and asked my Pap a question that the answer was obvious, he would say, "Is a forty-pound robin a biggun?"
He also would say, "Does a bear $hit in the woods?" Or, "Does a carp have a water-tight a$$?"

Sorry, but that's some of what I recall...times were different then.

Scott

 

[Old Dog]

Scarce as hens teeth

tight as a tick

greener than grass

as green as a gourd

no bigger than a minute

as clear as mud

running around like a chicken with his head chopped off

nuttier than a fruitcake

clean as a whistle

as big as a house

couldn't hit the broad side of a barn (from the inside with his hat)

Will fight at the drop of a hat (and he'll drop the hat)

easier than shootin fish in a barrel

I'm hogg tied with red tape

 

[AU24K]

The turn of a card can change a man's life...

Scott

 

[Burnt Chimney]

I don't won't to hear about the pain , just show me the baby