[DocRock]

You can't polish a turd.

[DouglasKC]

My mother told me "Never starta vanity thread on FreeRepublic."

:-)

[rdb3]

She told me to never make the stupid mistake. Honest mistakes will happen, just beware of the stupid ones.

[motormouth]

My mother always told me, regarding men,
"why buy the cow, when they can get the milk for free"
Now that Im older and wiser, My response to her is
"Why buy an entire pig....just to get a little sausage".
;o)

[HitmanLV]

Well, for starters she never called me 'honey child...'

[Petronski]

"You can learn anything you want at the library."

[onyx]

Daddy told me "you cain't ever make a racehorse out of a mule."

[26lemoncharlie]

My Daddy:

The good lord gave you two ears and one mouth, make sure you use them in the same proportion.

[Huntress]

"Nobody likes a whining kid."

[tomkat]

..that ain't the way to have fun, su~un,
that ain't the way to have fun, no ...

[Skooz]

My mamma told me: "I'm not bailing you out again."

[tomkat]

ok, gotta ask: how'd farming make it into your keywords ??

lol

[MamaTexan]

What words of wisdom did your mother or loved one impress upon you?

If wishes were fishes, we'd walk on the sea

Plan for the worst, hope for the best, and if you're lucky, you'll come out somewhere in between

and (the one stupid teenage mistake I made of raising my hand to her):

Bring it on Darlin'....... but you best bring it ALL!

:)

[diamond6]

"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

[JennysCool]

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."

[diamond6]

Great idea for a thread.... thanks!

[FDNYRHEROES]

In before the Ping!..

[IdahoNative]

My Daddy Always Told Me...

"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."

[ntnychik]

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!)

[Knitting A Conundrum]

My daddy always told me, cut bait or fish.