Posted on 06/02/2005 6:23:59 PM PDT by peacebaby
Forrest Gump's mother told him: "Life is like a box of chocolates... ." My own mother told me: "Honey child, there's a thin line between love and hate." What words of wisdom did your mother or loved one impress upon you? Anyone?
.. and with that, i'll bid y'all g'night ;-)
I like the "bring it on." So when mydaughter told me "If I could pull it out of my as*... ." And I told her, "if you'd get out your head out of your as*, maybe you could."
What can I say? We live in a new world these days....
"Trust God with the details" is one of my favorites.
My dad: "This too shall pass";
"Consider yourself a very lucky person if you can count your real friends on one hand when you die." Unknown
Advice from Bret Maverick's Pappy:
"He who plays and runs away lives to play another day."
"Hell hath no fury like a man who loses with four of a kind."
"You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all the time and those aren't bad odds."
"No use crying over spilled milk, it could have been whiskey."
"Work is right for killing time, but it's a shaky way to make a living."
"Never hold a kicker and never draw to an inside straight."
"Never play in a rigged game, unless you rig it yourself."
If you can count your friends on one hand. Very true. I know for certain.
good at poker, eh?
Great idea for a thread.... thanks!
Mom told me, "A lady's hands proclaim her habits..." and now that I have RA, they're kind of gnarly. But I have always kept my nails nice and worn a small amount of very good jewelry.
ROFL!
Ain't that the truth!
One of our twins was at the eye roll stage. One day, I just got one too many and gave her a half hearted smack upside her head.
When she asked me why I did that, I told her I thought maybe something was wrong with her eyes, the way they kept rolling around, so I was trying to straighten them up for her.
Kids...gotta love em! (Well at least on the days they're not causing you to bang your head against the wall!)
:)
A specialty of those Maverick boys...
When my offspring were younger and they used to really actr out, I used to tell them "I brought you into this world and I know how to take you out." Now that their late teens and still have days that they push all my buttons I've updated it with something I heard on comedy central, "Ya know, I coulda swallowed you."
I think that was Harvey Danger in Flagpole Sitta.
In before the Ping!..
"You're going to meet lots of unreasonable people during your lifetime so you'd better learn to deal with them - you can start with me."
No truer words were ever spoken.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.
Whatever you do, DON'T.
You don't know enough to come in out of the rain.
Always wear clean underwear. You never know when you'll be in an accident.
Get your head out of that book.
(I got lots of advice from Mom!)
My daddy always told me, cut bait or fish.
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