Best saying your mom ever said to you

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  • Katina3333
    Katina3333 Posts: 259 Member
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    My parents taught me:

    You don't get your meat where you get your potatoes.

    The only thing that makes something worse is lying about it.

    You're only as good as your word.

    A penny saved is a penny earned.
  • saxmaniac
    saxmaniac Posts: 1,133 Member
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    This one always stuck with me - when I was learning to drive:

    "While you technically have the right of way... that doesn't matter if you're dead."

    Sometimes being technically right isn't worth it. This has a lot of applications outside of driving, too. :smile:
  • NikkiSixGuns
    NikkiSixGuns Posts: 630 Member
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    This one always stuck with me - when I was learning to drive:

    "While you technically have the right of way... that doesn't matter if you're dead."

    Sometimes being technically right isn't worth it. This has a lot of applications outside of driving, too. :smile:

    YES! My dad says that one, too. So right.
  • caspergirl7
    caspergirl7 Posts: 590 Member
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    Not my mom, but my 100 year old grandmother told me "Never tell a man what he can and can't do. Just make sure he understands that you can do whatever he does ten times worst. He wants a night off with his friends? That's fine. You go to Vegas for a week with yours."

    ^^ bahaha!! i friggin' love this!! i might just take this advice ; )
  • foot56
    foot56 Posts: 44
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    "Excuses are like *kitten* everyone has one."
  • michellechawner
    michellechawner Posts: 892
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    "Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part"

    This sign is on my father's desk at work :)
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
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    Me: No *kitten*
    Mom: I wouldn't *kitten* you, you're my favorite turd.

    My husband says that all the time! (your Mom's saying)
  • kaylah47
    kaylah47 Posts: 6
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    My mom always thinks this way and is always saying.....well Kayla I am just being realistic. lol There are many times she has been very right!
  • Cliffslosinit
    Cliffslosinit Posts: 5,044 Member
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    She would say "Just wait until your Dad gets home".
  • Allie_71
    Allie_71 Posts: 1,063 Member
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    "Don't lift your dress over your head in the grocery store!"

    Sage advice mom, sage advice.

    Wish I'd listened....
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,229 Member
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    My grandmother once said "Well **** fire and save damn matches!"

    We're southern. LOL!

    Oh... and "shotgun boogie".

    Grandma makes me laugh! :laugh:
  • oregonzoo
    oregonzoo Posts: 4,251 Member
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    "you can't hurry love, ohyou just have to wait"
  • Kiyalynn
    Kiyalynn Posts: 128 Member
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    "Kids wash"

    My mom had a habit of encouraging me and other kids to play in mud puddles, Piles of Leaves, dirt, even jumping in lakes. When someone would comment on why she was letting us play in mud, she always would causally reply "They wash" . And if the kid she was telling to play in puddles didn't want to play in the puddle, she would.
  • TakeTimeToCare19
    TakeTimeToCare19 Posts: 32
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    My mom gave me good advice but it's my Dad who I will quote here. At 16 I heard this over and over again when I was doing whatever because I thought I was grown. "A fool is doomed to repeat." LOL Thanks DAD :)
  • beachlover317
    beachlover317 Posts: 2,848 Member
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    MY Dad always said to me, when I would think it was too late to do something: "How old will you be if you don't do it?"
  • PJ64
    PJ64 Posts: 866 Member
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    "Don't lift your dress over your head in the grocery store!"

    Sage advice mom, sage advice.

    Wish I'd listened....

    I WISH the folks in Walmart had your mom:laugh:
  • PamelaGatorMom
    PamelaGatorMom Posts: 348 Member
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    My mom was all about positive attitudes she would always say: "what you believe is what you achieve" and "you can do anything you put your mind to" I’m probably the only kid who at age 8 knew who Zig Zigler was and could quote him.

    "A way to a man’s heart is thru his stomach" and boy is my husband thankful she taught me that! :wink:

    My dad on the other hand was country and if we asked him, “What’s that fer?” (fer = for) he’d say, Cat FUR to make a pair of kitten britches you want a pair. :laugh: it took me years to actually stop & realize what he was saying! :noway:
  • jerber160
    jerber160 Posts: 2,606 Member
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    THIS IS ONE CHRISTMAS YOU'LL NEVER FORGET (beat beat beat hit beat)
  • NJD2885
    NJD2885 Posts: 216 Member
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    "We'll see..." It always meant yes, so I loved to hear it! :laugh:

    LOL I say that to my kids all the time, and 80% of the time it means yes

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