Do you have a favorite.....

[jackie7]

saying. I have repeated quite a few from you gals, especially the Elanor Roosevelt one about making mistakes, to my sons. Imagine my surprise when I heard my son saying it to one of his friends! So what is/are your favorite pearls of wisdom? Thanks!

 

[toastythemosty]

Glasses on the faces or in the cases. My DS forgets to put his glasses where they belong.

Charlotte~~

 

[midnight]

PP - Parental Perogative

End of discussion. Useful for ds and dd.

--Lois

 

[Tamster]

Two often repeated sayings in our household are:

*Remember, when you kick dirt on someone else, you always get a little on yourself too.

*Failure is not falling down, it is refusing to get up.

Tammy

Great thread idea!

 

[lisaannjam]

What you put out into the world is usually what you get back.

I've found this to be so true!

 

[Boybert]

If it were easy everyone would do it.

Never say never.


Debbie

 

[Mckmain]

No pearls of wisdom....just a favorite saying......Carole

 

[hippahips]

I tell my boy:

* Nobody's perfect. It's okay to make mistakes. The important thing is you learn from them.
* Be careful what you wish for...
* Keep trying. You fail only when you stop.

Pinky

 

[green woman]

i like to find good quotes by other women, whether i find them in a book or on a deck of cards("WILD WOMAN" found at Target). a couple of my favs are,

"Live each moment as if your hair is on fire" * Suzannah B. Troy
"I never practice, I always play" * Wanda Landowska
""When I think about my life, I am sure I will not arrive at an old age. But I would rather sing one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep" * Cecelia Bartoli

I love reading some of the quotes you ladies write!
patti;-)

 

[waterlily]

Make use of every opportunity given to you. It knocks only once

 

[Logos]

Some of my favorites:

The past does not equal the future.

In any moment, I can change my entire life by making a new decision.

Life is a game, play it with passion.

 

[nancy324]

Tammy, fabulous sayings! So true about failure.

 

[JMFRANE]

- There are no problems, only solutions.

- Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

I have others but can't think of them now.

Joanne

 

[benvonwojo]

I am going to slide up in there and put my thing down and when I come back out I want some real answers.

I can spot bulls&%t from a blimp in a fogstorm.

 

[amyg]

My current favorite is that you only get one body to last you your whole lifetime.

On a slightly different subject, my current favorite insult is "she's dumber than a bag of hair". }(

 

[NurseLRT]

amyg, that's funny. My husband says, "dumber than a box of rocks",

I tell my kids, "that's life in the big city" all the time. I swore I wouldn't because my mom would always say that to us. I say it when things don't go their way or they can't have a particular thing. I also like "tough luck", but I don't use that one to often because they are young, and it sounds a little harsh. When they are teenagers I am sure I will be spewing that out of my mouth all the time!

I love the one from Eleanor Roosevelt too. It's so true.

Lori

 

[exercise forever]

My favorite saying that I tell my kids

Don't think you are better than others, but just as good.

kim

 

[Tamster]

Thanks Nancy324...we have them both posted on the refrigerator!

Tammy

 

[mogambo]

My favorite one to help people who feel bad after overdoing something:

You can't know what "enough" is until you've had "too much".

 

[nancy324]

This one is from my DH who also gave me the Eleanor Roosevelt one:

"You'll never know what's around the corner if don't walk to the end of the block" - Nancy's DH