What old sayings do you remember hearing in childhood?

[martha]

I was speaking with another member and closed my PM with, "Goodnight, sleep tight, and don't let the bedbugs bite", and I said that was an old saying my father would use when I was a little girl (some 42 years ago). My friend said" My daughter won't go to sleep without her kiss and that very same old saying."

What old sayings were you taught as a child, and who taught you? You can give more than one, if you please.

 

[Majikthise]

I was speaking with another member and closed my PM with, "Goodnight, sleep tight, and don't let the bedbugs bite", and I said that was an old saying my father would use when I was a little girl (some 42 years ago). My friend said" My daughter won't go to sleep without her kiss and that very same old saying."

What old sayings were you taught as a child, and who taught you? You can give more than one, if you please.

"If your friends jumped off a bridge,would you?":tsk:

"This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you."

"Some day you will thank me for this."(and I often do.)

 

[No*s]

"I walked $NUMBER miles..." followed by a slew of descriptions of the journey like "in the snow" .

 

[Quoth The Raven]

My personal favourite;'Stop crying, or I'll give you a reason to.'
It always seemed to escape the speaker that I obviously felt I already had a reason.

 

[Bastet]

My personal favourite;'Stop crying, or I'll give you a reason to.'
It always seemed to escape the speaker that I obviously felt I already had a reason.

I hated that one so much...

 

[Bastet]

Ooh, ok, thought of one. "It's more afraid of you than you are of it." - said in relation to spiders (I'm arachnophobic, though not as bad as I was as a kid), and geese (which used to terrorise me constantly)...oddly enough, I didn't believe it in relation to either beastie.

 

[Quoth The Raven]

Ooh, ok, thought of one. "It's more afraid of you than you are of it." - said in relation to spiders (I'm arachnophobic, though not as bad as I was as a kid), and geese (which used to terrorise me constantly)...oddly enough, I didn't believe it in relation to either beastie.

Those geese were NEVER afraid of you...they'd scoff in goose like fashion at the thought.

 

[Bastet]

Those geese were NEVER afraid of you...they'd scoff in goose like fashion at the thought.

I know...which is why the whole "They're more afraid of you" thing didn't wash with me.

 

[retrorich]

"Richard...you will be staying after school today!"

 

[Quoth The Raven]

"Shut your mouth and eat!"

Yes, because there's starving kiddies in Africa who would love to have what you've got.

 

[No*s]

"Shut your mouth and eat!"

That reminds me of "Wolf it down!"

 

[retrorich]

Your fast replies beat my post edit. Maybe I should have left it as it was.

 

[No*s]

Your fast replies beat my post edit. Maybe I should have left it as it was.

Maybe, but now the world has two versions to pick from .

 

[No*s]

Here's one: I'd object that he was wrong on something, and my Father would respond, "I may not be right, but I'm **** sure definate."

My Mother: "You don't have to shout! We don't live in a barn."

 

[FyreBrigidIce]

One of the most memorable sayings that I learned from my mom and use on my daughter is...

"Understand, rubber band, I'm the boss, applesauce"


FBI

 

[michel]

"It's more afraid of you than you are of it." (Basted)
"Some day you will thank me for this."(and I often do.)(Majikthise)

Are two that strike a chord with me - but the most important one was the "Michel, you can do anything that you put your mind to" - which sounds rather good on the face of it; except that I can never see myself being able to fly, win a race, be able to dance (I have about four feet and they each seem to have a mind of their own); this last one was actually quoted to me as being a 'maladaptive ' statement to make to a child, simply because it is not true. The intention was good.

 

[mrscardero]

"I told you so."

"Wait till you have your own kids."

"If you listened to me the first time, this would not have happened."

"Eat your vegetables and you will grow big and strong."

"Why don't you listen to me? Like talking to a brick wall."

"Goes in one ear out the other."

"Look at this room. Looks like a tornado hit it."

My respond to tornado room: "Nah. It's a pig sty."


My mom is really my cousin who I call my mom because she took me in as one of her own so she would use to say this to me.

Mom: "I brought you into this world, I can take you out."

Me: "Mom, you are really my cousin."

Mom: "Fine. You're mother brought you into this world, she can take you out."

And the family laughs.

 

[Lightkeeper]

If you are going to do it, do it right.

 

[mrscardero]

Clean your room or no dessert.

You will sit there until you finish everything in your plate. I am not raising you to be
a bird eater.

If you are not up in 5 minutes I will come in there and pour a bucket of water on you.

Are you listening to me? Don't make me knock out the ear wax in your ears.

 

[groovydancer88]

My mom read to me and my siblings a lot when we were younger, and she said this all the time: "Richer than I you can never be, for I have a mother who reads to me". So true!