Published on 12, July, 2020
My head is a repository of all the old sayings my mum used when I was little and they stuck.
I only ever hear people my age (50+) using these now.
It's a shame if their use disappears completely.
I'd be curious to know whether any of the younger members of the forum know/use these.
Please share any you know.
There is a lot of wisdom in these.
A few that spring to mind immediately.
A stitch in time saves nine.
He who hesitates is lost.
Look before you leap.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Jack of all trades, master of none
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained
Out of the frying pan, into the fire
Youth is wasted on the young
Kill two birds with one stone.
A bad workman blames his tools
A fool and his money are soon parted
Honesty is the best policy
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Careless talk costs lives
Don't rob Peter to pay Paul
We're missing out on so much wisdom and tradition, these days.
Ultimately, it's a result of poor parenting.
I do feel the same way, as advanced age brings the wisdom of life experience - having worked in supermarket retailing for over 30 years and always been around “women of a certain age” I also find it how uncanny and consistently accurate our grandparents warnings and predictions were (and are) on so many issues, decades after their passing in the 1980’s when I was a teenager, yet our parents totally dismissed and ignored them and told us to do the same, leaving us teenagers genuinely confused at the time - it was only when we started to experience real life for ourselves in our 20’s and beyond that we started to realise that our grandparents were correct all along
Consistently our grandparents before their passing in the 1980’s have been proven correct, yet our parents never took heed nor acted on our grandparents advice, for which our parents paid a terrible price in their later lives before thier own passing