Whats your Favorite Old Saying?

Now we're cookin with gas.

I feel more like I do now than I did before I got here.

Useless as teats on a boar hog.

It'll fair up soon.

A favorite of mine: It don't take me long to look at a horseshoe.

Lastly, an old one attributed to Abe Lincoln: that plow won't scour (meaning it was an idea that just wasn't gonna fly)

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"Only the rocks [and really embarassing moments] live forever"

"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands..." tick-tick-tick

My dad, would always say to us kids wanting something, "Spit in one hand and wish in the other and lets see which hand gets full first."

"Hell is the view beyond the carrott"

We all have something we are working for. If that was taken away and only the work remained...

Shannon L. Darby
SLD Farm
Beallsville, OH
http://www.sldfarm.net

with an ill fella sharing this house (renal failure )

daily irritations seem to rise often ..

when I have reached my limit with these daily irritations (work ...family ..my own limitations ) ..

My pat saying is ..


" I have one nerve left and you're swingin like Tarzan"


I am given a little space to think and dwell and resolve ...

Good Gracious Miss Agnes!

(He, You, She) better . . . or it'll be Katy Bar the Door!

(Both compliments of my late grandmother from Southern Virginia)

The pathway to Hell is paved with good intentions.

You drive to work or take your lunch?

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r.h. in oklahoma

Raised a country boy, and will die a country boy.

it's not great, but it's better than a nail in your foot..
do it, the lord hates a coward.
tell someone that really gives a s----

Your about as useless as A Geldling for Stud! heres another one Well if your bored (Board) get A Plank! Life Ain't Fair now is it!

One I heard recently & immediately adopted... "Fair's a place you go to eat popcorn & ride rides." It is my response to any whining about "fair," whether the whining be from my own children or my students.

-Joy

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-Joy

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The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work. --Thomas A. Edison

"I don't give a flying flip" (I don't really care), "What does that have to do with the price of tea in China" (does that have anything to do with what we're talking about), My dad's favorites: "what in tarnation?" (similar to "what in the world") and "shoot fire save matches" (same as just saying "shoot").

My wifes version is "I have one nerve left and you're strumming it hard".

My reply is: Well isn't that sweet music. (I then beat a hasty exit)

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"Only the rocks [and really embarassing moments] live forever"

"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands..." tick-tick-tick

I just *hate* this one!!It always meant my brother wasn't getting a spanking I thought he deserved!

Not my favorite but I thought it was funny, my grandfather used to say, "Don't worry about nothin' 'cause nothin's gonna be alright."

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Cloven Trail Farm
Lord help me be the person my dog thinks I am!

Ja-Lyn's Radio Flyer, aka "Rad" on his 17th birthday.
9/14/93 -12/3/10.
Rest peacefully my soulmate, I'll love you forever.

That boy would argue with a fence post.

Your a puddin stick.

My favorite saying ...

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.


It's a very old one - it came from Plato.

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Anne
Give me a sweet home set among the trees,
With friends whose words are ever kind and true.
-Phoebe Carey-

LONE PINE FARM
Barnesville, PA
Boer goats, Angora goats, Eclectic mix of poultry

From my grandmother, and no doubt from her grandmother ---

"It will never been seen on a galloping horse" meaning that that small imperfection in your appearance today is nothing to sweat over.

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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring - Carl Sagan

My mother was a font of old sayings...she had multiple versions of the one I hated to hear when I was a kid..

"That's the way the cookie crumbles."
"That's the way the ball bounces."

Then there were multiple ways to colorfully describe me, her energetic child...

"You're like a bull in a china parlor."
"You're hopping around like a fart in a whirlwind."
"You're jumpier than a fart in a skillet."

I was also often talked about with the following phrases...
"Someone's eyes were bigger than their stomach."
"Looks like someone bit off more than she could chew."
"Little pitchers have big ears."


Then there were the sayings that described the weather...
"It's colder than a witch's boobie" (she of course said a word that starts with a T) and if it was really, super cold it was colder than that same witch's appendage in a brass bra.

Sometimes it was just "colder than a well diggers bottom." (insert the word that starts with A for bottom)

In the summer it was "hotter than a June bride in a feather bed." and it "rained cats and dogs."

When something wasn't fresh smelling, mom had quite a way to describe it...
"Smells like a W house at low tide."
"Smells like a French W." (this was reserved for women who wore too much perfume)
"Stinks to high heaven."

Mom wasn't much of a baker, so many of her cookies or cakes were self described as:

"Harder than a brick bat" (no idea what a brick bat is) or "Hard as nails."
"Drier than a popcorn fart" or "Dry as a bone."

She had many sayings including...

"Deader than a doornail."
"I have a bone to pick with you."
"Your room looks like a cyclone hit."
"Stop chomping at the bit."
"Don't look a gift horse in the mouth."
"Knock the tar out of you."
"Up S creek without a paddle."
"That's for the birds."
"Looks like you got the wrong end of the stick."

The number one saying I hated when I was a kid, but I do admit to using now that I have kids was:

"There are three kinds of fair in this world. County Fair, State Fair and World's Fair."

"Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see"

Grandma and mom always said it. makes sense.

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