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Tobor7

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 03:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This was really nice stuff everyone!
Thanks.
I'm going to print it out and keep it.

Ripley

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 04:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Treat everyone how you want to be treated.
If they jumped off a cliff, would you?

Alteredartist

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 04:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Great thread!

My dad always told me (which I think of often listening to the HG):

"When you talk about others, you are really saying more about yourself."

Katlady53

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 04:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My dad always said, "Don't dip your pen in the company inkwell."

I never understand that cuz I didn't have a "pen" then; nor do I now. :)

Guiltyviewer

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 04:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Puck, your dad was a smart man who raised a smart son! :)

Earthmother

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 04:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Dadisms from my house:

"I don't care if JC himself is tap dancin' on that tv, shut if off and get your butt to the dinner table."

when I started dating
"A hard **** has no concience"
"be careful of the toes you step on today, as they may be attached to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow."

"there is no excuse you can give me that I didn't try to give to my own parents."

"Go ask your mother."


by the way I am from the South, and we had peach trees in our yard...when Momma would say "go get me a switch" I would feel the sting before I ever got it off the tree...lol

Marymc

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 05:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
"don't sh*t where you eat".....

Breezy

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 05:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My father was a conservative English professor. We had six kids in our family, so we got into it quite a bit. I remember some of his sayings in dealing with us. I loved him dearly; his bark was worse than his bite.

"I'm going to snatch you baldheaded if you don't straighten up."
"I'm going to turn you every which way but loose."
"I think you're a great kid, I don't care what your sister says."
"Oh what are you afraid of? That bug is more afraid of you than you are of him."

Idlechitchat

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 05:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
When your down and feeling low, Watch the donut not the hole. My dad was my principal is middle school and I also always had to uphold the family name......Geez I hated that! :)

Kmjm

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 05:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Don't follow the crowd- do what YOU think you should do.

BUT

If you stick your head up above the crowd, someone will always cut it off

I could never figure out what to do!

Loppes

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 05:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
When the devil comes knocking, make sure your locks and keys are on the inside of the house.
Lon

Ministryoftruth

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 05:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It's nice that you look for something good in everyone, but some peoples' only function may be to serve as a warning to others.

Grannygrunt

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 06:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Do you think I got rich by resting on my laurels? Waiting for someone to hand me something? No, it was because I worked hard to have something.

Creampuff

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 06:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
When it was obvious that one of us didn't know how to do something or if we complained that we didn't, Dad would remark, "It's awfully simple if you know how: simply awful if you don't".

Another saying that could be attributed to him (when we would say that something or other never happened before)......."That's what the farmer said when his horse died".

2addicted

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 06:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My Dad told me "Work to Live-- Don't Live to Work"

Northstar

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 07:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
"Just because it's (they're) different, doesn't mean it's wrong."

Moonfairys

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 09:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My parents were hippies, and so we didnt have a lot of "rules" in our house. Needless to say we grew up kind of ummmm, untamed? Ok, well.. we just never had lessons in manners.

I married a man from the south who was an army brat... manners and rules were drilled into him since conception.

When I was 6 months pregnant with my daughter (and already huge bellied), my husband and I were talking one day and I casually sat down on the coffee table. It tipped over, I fell on my tush, he laughed and howled:

"Well, thats what you get! Tables are for glasses, not A**ES!"

Surini

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 10:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My grandmother used to have a saying for everything you said or did, wish I had written them all down!

A couple were:
If we didn't ask for something in a very nice way she would say, "you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar."

As kids you always ask "why?" to everything and everytime we did she'd say "curiosity killed the cat"...I swear we never got a "why" question answered!

Another one she would use is "it's hotter than the hubs of glory". I'm not even sure how that one came about.

Marymc

Saturday, September 21, 2002 - 07:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
eveytime we kids would go up to my mom and ask what we could do, she'd say, "people who are bored, are BORING."

Marcieb

Saturday, September 21, 2002 - 08:44 am EditMoveDeleteIP
One grandmother's left me indelibly printed with "Many a truth is spoken in jest," "Children, nails weren't meant to scratch each others' eyes out with," (when we were sniping at one another) and "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." I don't think I go through a day without one of these coming to mind.

My dad's best-loved phrase was "If you're gonna go, go first class."

My mom seemed to say on a daily basis, "Just wait 'til your father gets home!"

Toolhound

Saturday, September 21, 2002 - 08:49 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My Dad had a lot of these great things to tell me like
"Use your head for something besides a hat rack" .
He also had a nice way to wake me up. When my alarm went off I had 30 seconds to get out of bed. That was how long he took to get a glass and fill it with cold water and when he opened my bedroom door if I was not out of bed he dumped it on me. Sounds bad but that was 35 years ago and I still jump straight out of bed when the alarm goes off.

Bohawkins

Saturday, September 21, 2002 - 09:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Last thing my Daddy told me was,

"Remember this son, a real man doesn't cry. It's your time to be a man."

I was three. I never cried again.

Ellenkats

Saturday, September 21, 2002 - 09:09 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Dad had a few:

"Anything above a 'C' is wasted effort."

"No matter what happens, we will always love you and you can always come back home." (said before leaving for college my first year away.)

I still havent't figured this one out, but whenever we kids asked 'why?' dad would say 'keys cause cotton, your potatoes are rotten.' Maybe it's an old saying someone here knows?

And finally (when teaching me to drive) "Don't you ever pull out on a busy highway like that without looking first" (said very white faced as he yanked up emergency brake between us one second before a big truck whizzed by 6 inches in front of us). "Your mom's gonna have to finish teaching you to drive, I am too old for this mess." ;-)

Scarlett

Saturday, September 21, 2002 - 09:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I love this thread. Taking me down memory lane here. My mom and dad were not much for quotes, but my adored grandmother was.
She used to sing this song, and when I was little, I would literally go outside and look for an eye in the sky. It was a little unsettling, but to this day I can remember her singing it.

THERE'S AN EYE WATCHING YOU

All along on the road to the soul's true abode,
There's an Eye watching you.
Every step that you take this great Eye is awake,
There's an Eye watching you.
Watching you, watching you,
Everyday mind the course you pursue;
Watching you, watching you,
There's an all-seeing Eye watching you.

Wcv63

Saturday, September 21, 2002 - 11:38 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My dad was quiet and the only thing he ever really verbalized was his love, pride and confidence that we could achieve our goals.

My mother taught me that being naive meant that you could be taken advantage of (this by her being an extremely naive person that I had to constantly watch out for). I have taught her so much about this topic and am happy to report that she is almost fully educated now!

Both of my parents taught me that you don't need money to be happy and that children who feel loved and accepted CAN achieve their goals.