Old Fashioned Sayings

[Daisy]

I was half-heartedly ironing something today, when a little voice popped into my head saying rather sternly "if a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well" - something I used to hear a lot when I was a child. But I haven't heard anyone saying that for years.

"Children should be seen and not heard" is another one that you don't hear these days (thank goodness!)


I'm sure there must be other sayings we all used to hear as children but nobody says now.

[Oma]

You reap what you sow was a one my father used to say,
I still say don't put of till tomorrow what can be done today.

[Lizzie48]

Don't put all your eggs in one basket, a favourite of my fathers and I still think the same!

[Plantaholic]

Ships that pass in the night and pigs don’t fly are two I haven’t heard for ages.

[Daisy]

All good sayings!

My auntie used to say This won’t do but this and better might.

[Lizzie48]

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

[Gemini]

My nanna used to say ' Money's made round to go round' which we thought was nice.

[Nanto2girls]

We still say some of these sayings.
Theres a couple there i haven't heard before.

[Daisy]

Nanto - I wonder if some sayings are regional? I can remember sayings from when I was a child which I only ever heard in dialect and as dialects die out so do the sayings.