What saying has been passed down in your family?

Question

In my family it is "Every mother crow thinks her baby crow is the blackest".

Answer 1

Life isn't fair

Answer 2

We don't really have any sayings per say, but my stepdad's side of the family uses a lot of Pennsylvania Dutch words.
My favorite one is "schleck" - it means lick. Anytime anybody used the margarine at my grandmother's house, we had to check the lid because my great grandfather always schlecked the knife. I didn't even know it wasn't a 'normal' word until my boyfriend said he'd never heard it before.

Answer 3

in my family its a man is just like a bus, miss one wait another ones coming around the corner.

Answer 4

Never date a women who pays her rent with one dollar bills and 'never walk through a cornfield backwards'.

Answer 5

Most of these are from my Grandmother.

"Hard as a brick bat"

"A pig says "huh" when you pull his tail he says "u-huh"
( I never quite understood that one)

"Crazy as a loon"

She also called a bag a "poke"

Answer 6

the youngest do all the dirty work, the adults pay for everything. Ironically, the chain has somehow broken on me as soon as I'm adult.

Answer 7

"He's nuttier than a squirrel turd!"

"It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye."

Answer 8

"Catch as catch can." Said when there are only leftovers in the fridge.

Answer 9

If Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

Answer 10

My daddy always said, "You may be defeated but never surrender."