old sayings

P I Pete · Mar 17, 2015

If you are in a group of people and don't say anything, they will think you are a fool, open your mouth and remove all doubt!

JOCCO · Mar 17, 2015

Buy him for what he is worth and sell him for what he thinks he is worth you would be rich.

jeffcat · Mar 17, 2015

Also "It is better to be thought a fool , than to open your mouth and remove all doubt" Same just a little diff.

bison · Mar 17, 2015

I ain't young enough to know it all.

Never corner anything meaner than you.

Half · Mar 17, 2015

A farting horse never tires, a farting man is the man to hire.

Angle Iron · Mar 17, 2015

Come blister or bleed it will get done.
Angle Iron

RLH22 · Mar 17, 2015

to lazy to walk and breath at the same time

aFORDable · Mar 17, 2015

If it needs to be done today, it should have been done yesterday.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 17, 2015

May the wind be always at your back.
Hope you are in heaven half hour before the devil knows you are dead.
This is the first day of the rest of your life.
If yo vant to have better neighbors, be a better neighbor.

Dia dhuit

Alan K · Mar 17, 2015

When I get bored I like to combine some old ones with a new twist: "You would complain if you were pushed off a cliff with a new rope" "If at first you don't succeed, you must not be doing it right" "If wishes were horses we'd all have to watch where we step"

Fawteen · Mar 17, 2015

My version is "If at first you don't succeed, give it one more shot and then give up. No point in being a dang fool about it."

Fawteen · Mar 17, 2015

Must be how come I had such good luck staying employed...

JerryS · Mar 17, 2015

If everybody had all the money they wanted, it wouldn't be worth anything.

Ellis Kinney · Mar 17, 2015

Never pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he will just kill you.

notjustair · Mar 17, 2015

Fair is a nice day, a pretty girl, and what you take your pig to.

If "ifs and buts" were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas.

I always use "douse the fire and hide the skillet" when I'm ready to leave the house.

You know, I don't think I have met a person in the last 10 years that knows what "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" means. I thought everyone knew that one.

Donald Lehman · Mar 17, 2015

Here's one from my dirt bike days: If wishes were Husky's, we all could ride.

bumblebee · Mar 17, 2015

Be thankful that cats don't have middle fingers.

DENNIS MIN · Mar 17, 2015

Ellis,

I like that one.

D.

dlbuck · Mar 17, 2015

Never hire a man who rolls his own cigarettes and wears a straw hat. If he's not rolling a cigarette he's chasing that darn hat.

Wemedeeres · Mar 17, 2015

My grandpa used to say "it's a good thing everyone doesn't like the same thing, otherwise they'd all be after me"

Dieseltech · Mar 17, 2015

When I am right no one remembers, when I am wrong no one forgets...

Frank 41 · Mar 17, 2015

School mate always said "Cheer up, things could get worse. So I cheered up and sure enough, they got worse."

Wife says,"If you don't belive me, take my word for it."

Wemedeeres · Mar 17, 2015

(quoted from post at 20:55:37 03/17/15) Fair is a nice day, a pretty girl, and what you take your pig to.

If "ifs and buts" were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas.

I always use "douse the fire and hide the skillet" when I'm ready to leave the house.

You know, I don't think I have met a person in the last 10 years that knows what "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" means. I thought everyone knew that one.

A lot of them have never heard it "straight from the horses mouth" either!

Indiana Ken · Mar 17, 2015

(quoted from post at 16:53:27 03/17/15) ....... "If wishes were horses we'd all have to watch where we step"

My mother's version was, "if wishes were horses beggers might ride". She also liked to say, "up sheet creek without a paddle".

My favorite of her's was, "That makes as much sense as John Stinks changing his name to Charles". When I was a kid, I remember asking her, why did he do that? She replied, then John would not stink. I was totally confused and told her that doesn't make any sense....I will always remember that day.

ditchwitch · Mar 17, 2015

Heres just a couple
If someone ask how you doing today ,say everything so good i got to sit on both hands to keep from waving at everybody.
or
If it got any better i just coundnt stand it.
or if someone ask what you doing ,say just ridin around jump in.
or
Just Sh$tin on one foot and kickin it off with the other.

jim castleman · Mar 17, 2015

My grandmother always said "an idle mind is a devil's workshop" sure fits these times!

NEKS · Mar 17, 2015

My Uncle use to say "Any ole horse fart in the morning, takes a good horse to fart in the afternoon".

Nate V. IA · Mar 17, 2015

He's all hat, no cattle.

Pour the cobs to 'er.

If you can't be good, be good at it.

Taker easy, an if she's easy taker twice.

old · Mar 17, 2015

Sad that you miss quoted Mark Twian

Frank Dodson · Mar 17, 2015

If it ain't broke don't fix it.

ADB-Ia · Mar 17, 2015

The landlord used to say during a rainstorm,"Let it rain. Nobody's out but the hired man and the dog, and the dog's under the wagon."

omahagreg · Mar 17, 2015

Grandpa always said, 'like shooting fish in a barrel!'

PAHoward · Mar 17, 2015

Convince a women against her will, she'll have the same opinion still

Richard L · Mar 17, 2015

You misspelled his name.

Jeff B. · Mar 17, 2015

In that vein, I asked a guy once where his generosity was, and he told me"Generosity killed the cat."

Alan K · Mar 17, 2015

LOL....nice name change on that one.

Brown Swiss · Mar 17, 2015

When worked at the sand mine we used to say "Don't have time to do it right the first time, but have money enough to do it right the second time". That was about managements decisions.

Den N Ms · Mar 17, 2015

A XXX Large women ,is like riding a Moped,you don't want to get caught riding one!

oldmisterbill · Mar 17, 2015

"Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow"

"A fast nickel is bettern a slow dollar" (from an old yankee horse trader , by the way he was quite wealthy ,yet his place looked like old junk.)

"Slipperyer then a prayer meeting fart."

"P%ss onme but don't tell me its raining"

2x4 · Mar 18, 2015

"Boys, I might as well go to the house. I can't dance & it's too wet to plow."

Roy in UK · Mar 18, 2015

"A fool pursues his folly until he becomes wise".
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift....that is why it is call the present"

sms · Mar 18, 2015

That dog'll hunt.
As much chance as a snowball in heck.
Slipperier then snot on a doorknob.
A miss is as good as a mile.
Tighter then a frogs a$$ and that is water tight.
Busier then a one armed fiddle player swatting flies.
The faster I go the behinder I get.
Close is only good enough for hand grenades and nuclear bombs.
If there is enough blue sky to make a pair of Dutchmans britches it will clear up.
Oak before Ash summer with a splash, Ash before Oak dust will make you choke. (which trees leaf out first)
Slower then molasses in January
Can't have winter until all the ponds and lakes are full.

Stephen Newell · Mar 18, 2015

My mother's was "it's a great life if you don't weaken"

ASEguy · Mar 18, 2015

It took me a long time to realize the second one was true.

showcrop · Mar 18, 2015

(quoted from post at 19:12:04 03/17/15) Sad that you miss quoted Mark Twian

Miss Quoted May be unhappy that you used her name. Perhaps you meant "misquoted", lol.

showcrop · Mar 18, 2015

When out for a Sunday drive in Northern NH, and passing an abandoned home with brush growing up in the pastures, my mother would say, "That place is going back to the Indians". And my recollection is that there were plenty of them.

tim s · Mar 18, 2015

When some guys at the Feed mill were arguing about different brands of tractors and cattle an old livestock dealer told them that "A good calf don't have a bad color"

Brown Swiss · Mar 18, 2015

"wait" is what broke the wagon down...
Old doctors never die, they just lose their patience!

Icuby · Mar 18, 2015

"If winter comes,spring can not be far away"

My Mother would alwas tell me if-when she had some aches or pains"You just wait." I would always tell her that"I will wait".

Now those waiting days are here. These Golden years are not what they are cracked up to be.

hd6gtom · Mar 18, 2015

if your tractor only has 2 cylinders you only have half of a tractor.

RyaninKS · Mar 18, 2015

There's more ol' drunks than there are ol' doctors!

Bob Collins · Mar 18, 2015

Had a boss say " Will wonders never cease to amaze me!" I thought that was a good combination. Another friend used to say "I hardly doubt it." think about that and what it means...or does it?

INCase · Mar 18, 2015

ha,

my dad always used to use (still does, and I do)

"he'd bixxh if he was hung with a new rope"

talking about folks that bixxth complain about everything.

He often says: "finer than a frog's hair"

biggerred · Mar 18, 2015

Dumber than a box of rocks. (Or bag of hammers)

Oliver662011 · Mar 18, 2015

"Busier than a cat trying to cover s--- on a hot tin roof."
"Busier than a one legged man in an a-- kicking contest."
"Alway's keep a edge on your knife, cause a good sharp edge is a mans best hedge against the vague uncertainties of life."
"No replacement for displacement."
"Knock a buzzard off a gut pile"
"Don't even have a pot to p--- in."
Mike

Goose · Mar 18, 2015

"If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried".

NIK OWEN · Mar 18, 2015

U CAN MAKE IT LOOK LIKE PEOPLE DID IT, OR MONKEYS DID IT...R.I.P. ACE CROMER, LUBBOCK TX

01gentdc · Mar 18, 2015

greeting to UK ,,my sara and I like that saying

01gentdc · Mar 18, 2015

it is true ,, take it to heart ,, those ol guys have nuthin to lose, and will shoot you if they are crazy with enuf anger ,

ETxJohn · Mar 19, 2015

"Don't even have a pot to p--- in." OR a window to throw it out of
colder than a well diggers a-- in Minnesota

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