Sayings We Grew Up With:

These are all from Grandma, Elizabeth Phoebe Leverton.

• "What is, is and what is, is best."
  
• "Your wants are many but your needs are few."
  
• When she saw our mother's beautiful wedding ring:  "Well someone has more money than brains."
  
• When she couldn't remember something:  "I've slept since then."

The following sayings were compiled by Virginia (Geege) Spurlock Gardner.

• What is worth doing is worth doing well.
  
• Bounce around like spit on a hot stove.
  
• Full as a tick.
  
• Fine as frog hair.
  
• Mad as a hornet.
  
• Mad as a wet hen.
  
• Mad as a settin' hen. 
  
• Off like that old bat.
  
• Off like a herd of turtles.
  
• Ugly as a mud fence. 
  
• So ugly he/she's cute. 
  
• Lies like a rug. 
  
• Call this place Cheyenne. (means to leave)
  
• Rough as a cob. 
  
• Rode hard and put up wet.
  
• Too wet to plow. 
  
• Snake in the grass. 
  
• I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.
  
• Pretty as a speckled pup.
  
• Tight as Dick's hatband.
  
• Shoulda stood in bed.
  
• So there! Now bawl! 
  
• Battin' your eyes like a frog in a hail storm.
  
• Slicker'an snot on a doorknob.
  
• Cold as a witches tit.
  
• Nervous as a whore in church.
  
• Useless as an old maid's tit.
  
• Raining like a cow peeing on a flat rock.
  
• So hungry I could eat the south end of a north bound skunk.