Do it rite the first time and you won't have to lick your calf twice.


Blessings,
Ruth

Well.....I rarely do it right the first time, but I am pretty sure I never licked a calf twice. My visual is actually licking it with my tongue or are we talking about lickin it with a bit of fisticuffs.

Grandma used to say, "put on your big girl panties and go deal with it." In other words, toughen up.

The other one I liked is, "my dog's not in that fight."

Do unto others as you want them to do unto you.

G'ma use to tell us "Pretty is as pretty does"..Didn't know it then but sure do now. My favorite is "Too soon old and too late smart"..Amen amen.

When sewing, Mamma always said when something didn't come out just right on something for us kids "Well, you'll never see it on a gallopping horse." I always had the mental image of the 8 of us running around like wild horses. Years later I heard it as "you'll never see it from a gallopping horse" Completely different mental picture. Some of my quilts are like that-put it over the porch railing, ride by on a fast horse, if you don't notice the mismatched seam, it's close enough.

Mama (and Daddy) used to say "Measure twice, cut once."

My mother use to say "You learn from your mistakes and not to let them get you down, that practice makes perfect"

You just wait...someday you will have kids of your own...

well Kaye Kaye, I had that visual, too. I dreaded doing chores she gave me, because I'd hear that saying, again.

Bizy Bess, it sure is good to have another view of that saying. After she combed and braided my hair she'd pat my tush and say that about the gallouping horse.

My mom use to say"that doesn't sound like my Carol" whenever I got a little angry ,loud, whiney, or smart. I told mine, "just you wait!"

...A job worth doing is worth doing well. My favorite sewing one was when she was getting low on thread she'd say to me, "oh, I have to sew real fast so I finish before I run out of thread." And I never remember her being short, would have about 1 or 2 feet of thread left; always amazed me. Now my grandkids think that is so funny when I say it to them.

not sure why I would lick a calf once, much less twice..

My dad told me to always measure twice and cut once. It's paid off lots of times for quilting and sewing. :)

A lazy donkey will load so much on his back in one trip he'll drop dead from the weight. (It doesn't translate better from German)

Mum used to say "a blind man would be pleased to see it" when something didn't turn out quite right

Mine was: 'Because I said so!' I was the one that wanted the REASON she 'said so!', but she never would tell me.... so I'd find out for myself. Sure wish she would have saved me some grief!

My mom would say, "You made your bed, now sleep in it."

My Dad used to say...Believe half of what you see & none of what you hear!

I gotta think of what Mom used to say...

My mom would say either "What goes around, comes around" or "Everyone gets theirs in the end". The lesson was to not get upset over something someone has done to you, their punishment is not in your control. The advice has made me a very forgiving woman and saved me a lot of aggravation over the years, one less thing I need to worry about taking care of!! I lost her 23 years ago, but thanks Ma, you were right!!

Oh, my father in law used to say "People in Hell want ice water" whenever someone wanted something out of the question or outrageous, I still say it to my kids!! And my dad said "anything worth doing is worth doing right"

This is a good thread, seems there were many sayings my folks used!

Mad quilter, I've heard it bowing under a lazy man's load, when you drop something with an arm load. It's a good one though. TY

My dad's was ALWAYS, "Two wrongs do not make a right." from Aesops Fables and Proverbs, The Holy Bible.

Yup, those are my mom's favorite saying too.

Now she said, "see what I mean? You've done worst than that, don't complain. deal with it."

My Mom used to say, "If you're not going to do something right, don't bother doing it at all!" She was a firm believer that we should all strive for our personal best in everything we do. She's almost 93 yrs. old and she's still the same way :)

My mom always used to say "You are known by the company you keep" and "Always marry someone on the same moral and intellectual level as yourself because a good woman never brings a bad man up to her level, he brings her down to his".

When someone was mad, my granny would say, "He/She can just get glad in the same pants he/she got mad in." Also, the one I probably heard most was, "if it had been a spider, it would have bit you."

My mom used to always tell us when we were complaining about wanting something "if wishes were horses then beggars would ride" and when we asked what was for dinner she would most often say "slivers and sharp teeth" still don't know what that one means!

My mom used to shake her head and say, " I don't know, I just don't know." (She had seven kids, including four lively boys!) My dad's most frequent mutter was, "Another Monday(or whatever day) shot in the a**! He said that almost every day. Wonder how I turned out to be such an optimist:-)

"If you don't put your clothes in the wash they are going to stand up by themselves in the corner. " We lived on a farm and the boys would forget to put their clothes in the wash. Or Mom would say...If you don't put your clothes in the hamper you will be washing them yourselves. It didn't take long to put the clothes where they belong.

My mum always said "If you can't say something nice, then don't say anything at all". People often wonder why I am so quiet!!

When I was little and I would fall down and skin my knee, or elbow or... whatever, my Daddy would tell "It'll be better before you're married". After I was married, and something stupid happened and I'd complain, he'd say "It'll be better before you're old". Well, my Daddy is gone now, but I can imagine him telling me "It'll be better before you die".

My Grandmother would say: Be good and you'll always be happy.

My Mom's says: Never Empty Handed to the Kitchen Go. (If you go from here to there or wherever, take what belongs there with you)

And, I say: I don't chew my cabbage twice. (I just don't like to repeat myself over and over and over.) Edie

My dear Mom, who died in 1993, used to say the one about: "One of these days you'll have a child who'll pay you back for all these things you've done to me!" and I did; and now my daughter has a daughter and three sons who are ten times worse than any of my children, at times.

She also used to put my 'poker straight' hair up in rags to make it curl which really hurt my tender head, and she would make me repeat: 'Pride must abide!' In other words, I had to have enough pride in my appearance to endure the 'rags', even though it was a painful thing for me.

Another good one both of my parents used was: 'Don't count your chickens before they hatch!' This applied especially as a young teen when I started babysitting. I'd be planning how I would spend my money and Momma or Daddy would remind me: 'Don't count your chickens before they hatch.' Then, sure enough, someone who had asked me to babysit would cancel, and the money that I had counted on was not there!

My Mom used to say," If you haven't time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over."

My grandmother said, the older you get the faster time passes, I thought that was so silly but you know she was right. Carol

Now here's one I can appreciate, Edie. I lived with a deaf person, well almost deaf for over thirty years. I came home to help my folks, quite elderly at the time, both of them were hearing impaired. I had to say things six to eight times. It was exhausting. But, when I'm around younguns and they don't listen, it P-turbs the blisters out of me !!! I like that, "chewing cabbage", it fits! Thanks

Blesssing,
Ruth

My Mother used to say.....Just wait till you have kids of your own......She was so right!!!! :-D

Today, is my deceased mother's birthday. She passed away about two years ago, her top three favorites were:

"Pick up the pieces and move on!"
"Everything happens for a reason!"
"The good Lord never gives us a load we can't carry!"

I heard these numerous times in my life, and I can still hear her saying them.

My mom used to always say..."Do as I say, Not as I do"

My grandma used to tell me "your mistakes are the only thing you can truely call your own, learn from them and they aren't mistakes after all just lessons gone wrong!!"

My mother was a hard working farm woman. Sometimes she'd get tired and want to take a nap. Never worked out well. I can remember her saying, "no sleep for the wicked and the righteous don't need it". If some one dropped a spoon on the floor "you were gonna kiss a fool".