This saying of my mother's has helped me through many rough times, "What a difference a day makes." (sometimes a day can take weeks/months)

and we used to say "I'm off like a prom dress."

Lots of good ones posted that take me back to the old days and lots I'm still saying. I must be stuck in a time warp.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday and everything is okay.

Regarding "What a difference a day makes!".......

That's one I heard a lot and thought about, too. Somebody once said on television that they wrote many letters that they never mailed, because after sleeping on one for a night, they decided it was better not to send it. And they were glad they never mailed those hot ones.

I've tried to remind myself not to immediately mail a letter or email I've written while being "hot under the collar", and to sleep on it overnight.

Sure enough, the next day after sleeping on it, the emotions and/or anger or distress have "simmered down" and I think, "oh, just let it go".

Just by writing it, it gets it out of our mind where it has been stewing toward the boiling point or "my worst nightmare" imagination stage.

Then the biggest problem is remembering not to click the "Send" or "Submit" button instantly!

I had a spiffy grandmother who told her granddaughters..

"It's better to be looked over than overlooked."

My sister used to say:

That's how the mop flops.

That's the way the cookie crumbles.

Rob and Laura were from New Rochelle, NY I think (not too far from Danbury).

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy!!!"

You're right, Ekdk! I was wrong. There's a real New Rochelle, and that's where Rob & Laura lived! So who was from Danbury? Mr. Ed? Is that where Lucy & Ricky moved to? Somebody lived in Danbury, didn't they? :undecided:

what ever floats your boat

WFCOL

Used to go with a guy that said that. It means "Well For Cryin' Out Loud".

Early AM Radio Guy
 

"Ok, folks...it's J B I B F T M Time"
Translation: Jump Back In Bed For Three Minutes Time

Remember Valley Girl speak. Things like...

Gag me with a spoon.

Usually the ones about cheapness are hilarious, as they come from various, distant parts of the country.

What are your favorites like "He's so cheap that _____"?

I used to hear "He's so tight that he screws his socks on!"

Shootin me thru the grease.

Slang for your trying to B.S. me.

Just heard grandpa Walton ask grandma Walton "What in blue blazes are you doing?"


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You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear!

How about the old put-down jokes:

"I'll put you down so low you'll have to reach up to tie your shoes"

or

"When they gave out brains you thought they said trains and missed yours".

Every little bit helps the old lady said as she peed in the sea.

Between two stools my ass hit the floor.

I'm so low that when I look-up, I can see the belly of a snake.

The Texas version: Lower than a snake belly in a wagon wheel rut

Tighter than the bark on a tree.

:wave:

Faster than a speeding bullet.

The New York version....

We don't do snakes, except at the zoo.

morning after saying..


I feel like I have been screwed, booed and tatooed.

Ain't that a kick in the head.

You can teach an old dog new tricks if you know more than the dog.

If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

A rolling dog gathers more mess.

I was born, raised and mugged in NY

Being retired means twice as much husband and half as much money.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Grandchildren don't make a man feel old, it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind it doesn't matter.

First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull up your zipper, then you forget to pull your zipper down.

One of my mother's favorites. "If wishes were horses beggars would ride".

One of mother's favorites was, "it don't nutin to be nice". :smiley:

Before Photoshop people used to say, "Seeing is believing".

My father used to say,'believe half of what you hear".