I have so enjoyed reading these sayings! Some I have heard, but many I have not.........

[QUOTE=lillybeck;3027751]..."Clean your plate because there are hungry kids overseas"[QUOTE]

My mother said something similar...."Clean your plate because there are starving children in China!" I never understood it, but it worked.

I also like...."Life is not like a bowl of cherries. Life IS like a bowl of jalapenos. What you do today might burn your *ss tomorrow!"

My mother use to say: love is blind and marriage is an eye opener.

I will add a few other I have heard to these ...

I feel like a one legged man at a sack race

Slicker than an owl’s butt

“For the Love”

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me

A Day late and dollar short

Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

I like 'what goes around, comes around'. And 'treat others the way you want them to treat you'.

My favourite came from my mother who told me......

Never run after a bus or a man, there is always another behind!!!!!!

hugs

Caroline

My mom always said...that makes my butt want a dip of snuff...I Swannee!! Get me a wrench to put on my hair..
and get a stewer (pot) out of the cabinet to cook in...it's a fir (far) piece to walk down there...just a good country woman she was..

That kid's so ugly they had to tie porkchops around his neck to get the dogs to play with him...grandpa liked that one..

Mom would send me to get canned goods(beans, peaches,meat, ect) from the basement. I'd come back saying I couldn't find it. She would send me back saying "Look with your eyes open!" If she had to come get it "It's right in front of your face. Or "So close it could bite."

"Just wait until your father gets home!"

Another great Judge Judy: "Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining".

Anita

Burning daylight.....[John Wayne]

My mom would say "We are shi**ting in tall cotton" (when something good happened) When my granny would write a letter or when we would call and ask how she was - she always said "Fat and Sassy" - I still use that one.

My Mom had a saying about poor people which she was most of her life. Her saying went like this. "Soap is cheap and patches are honorable"

Some of the ones I heard often growing up are: Money doesn't grow on trees, strike the iron while it's hot, a stitch in time saves nine, Nobody gets to pick out their face.

My kids always thought money grew on trees...until I showed them the dead tree in the backyard!

Anita

I remember ne from when I lived in Texas....Bless her heart. You cold make anything sound nice if you added "Bless her heart" at the end. For example...She is the homeliest person I have ever met...Bless her heart.

[QUOTE=ShowMama;6352669][QUOTE=lillybeck;3027751]..."Clean your plate because there are hungry kids overseas"I generously offered to send my plate to China when we had liver and onions for supper once. I had to sit there and eat every bit of it. I didn't offer again....I hope the kids didn't starve because I sure wished I could have starved that night. Yuck!

That last one is priceless. love it!
peace

My mothers favorite saying when she asked you to do something and you said you were too tired.
"You'll have to do more when you are less able"

My mother-in-law use to always say "It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken", she passed away 4 years ago, and her saying brings much comfort....

My husband, who is 58, said his Grandma used to want him to go out and play so told him
"Go out and get the stink blowed off ya."

I said to my oldest daughter " I might be all wet" She is 54 yrs and said to me You might be all wet?? What does that mean. I might not know what I am taking about but this is what I think.

I like this one: You got your mix all talked up ,but it don't make a diff of biterence.
Do you believe this one: It is better to have loved and lost ,rather then to never have love at all.

I have a friend that loss his wife and told me: The worst day of marriage was better then the best day alone.