Gems of Wisdom from our parents

Kittye of course ? I used it with my DD’s.

Thanks Shinamae at least I know how it ended now! Still no idea why she applied it to the various situations in which she used it.

My Mum ‘sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt you’. I’ve found through life that’s not true, words can hurt you, a lot.

My mum always said if you talked about someone behind their back it would always get back to them . She was right,too.

Get it or regret it-if you saw something you liked and decided to think about it before buying, you might well miss out.

Shinamae

My dad used to say to aunt May who was rather a rotund woman “ you’re digging your grave with a knife and fork“ ?

I’ve read it but never actually heard, ‘Digging our graves with our teeth.’

IIRC it was in a Barbara Pym novel, said by someone enjoying a slice of cake! Possibly a ‘rich’ one - back in the days when some people seemed to have a Thing about ‘rich’ food. The matriarch in Elizabeth Jane Howard’s Cazalet series certainly did.

Just remembered when my brother and I would not eat a stew. (We thought it was gruel and just sat there looking at it) My dear dad would just say “the colder it gets the worse it gets” and he never shouted at us but we knew we had to stay there and finish it..?

Grandmajean

When I lay on my back to let the fire dry my hair my mother used to say I would melt my marrow ! Hadn't a clue what she was on about which was probably just as well ! No care taken in the words said to children in those days !

Oh, drying your hair in front of the fire! I'd forgotten all about that. I can remember being so excited when we got our first hairdryer (complete with plastic bag that you could put on your head to aid drying).

And even stranger, I said to the dog this morning, I’d give him his breakfast as soon as I’d “put my face on” (foundation and a bit a blusher these days). Was that Mum or Gran I wonder!

'Take what you get and like it'!

“Sit up straight”and “elbows off the table” every meal time. Funnily enough, I said the latter to my 12 year old DGS last week!

Grandmajean that’s what I’d get told ?

TillyTrotter never heard “ tiddle your hush” but I rather like it. May use it myself, with your permission ?

My dad used to say to aunt May who was rather a rotund woman “ you’re digging your grave with a knife and fork“ ?

dragonfly46

My mum used to say ‘No-one will get off a galloping horse to look at you!’ And ‘the road to hell is paved with good intentions!’

That was nasty..??

Lexisgranny

I could never understand “You know what thought did!”. Well, no I didn’t, and I still don’t.

Thought followed a muck cart and thought it was the wedding..?

My mum used to say ‘No-one will get off a galloping horse to look at you!’ And ‘the road to hell is paved with good intentions!’

I could never understand “You know what thought did!”. Well, no I didn’t, and I still don’t.

A saying in our house was “tiddle your hush”. It was used to ask you to be quiet.
It was obviously said often as I remember it so well, but when I googled it today - nothing came up.
Has anyone else heard the saying?

From my mother, ‘A lost opportunity is like a spent arrow. It never comes back.’

Not necessarily true, of course, but certainly resonated with her, since there had been a job opportunity she’d turned down through nerves.

When I lay on my back to let the fire dry my hair my mother used to say I would melt my marrow ! Hadn't a clue what she was on about which was probably just as well ! No care taken in the words said to children in those days !

My mother used to say 'you have to suffer to be beautiful' when I used to sleep with a head full of rollers.

No pearls from my mother but a friend’s mother had a great line: “don’t look back; only look forward”

She would say 'you've made your bed now lie on it' for everything not a nice woman.

Sorry, giulia rather