jeena, 
My great grandma would say: “There’s nothing bad which would not result in something good.”
Strae, It’s an ill wind that doesn’t blow somebody good.
108beads, From my grandmother: “Essen! Essen!” (Eat! Eat!) Followed quickly by “You need to lose weight! You’re getting fat!”
Aryuproudomenowdaddy, 
Do we have the same grandma.
wesker, 
“Who just shit my pants?”
Aryuproudomenowdaddy, I don’t know about ‘iconic’ but I once heard my grandpa say “I’d eat 5 feet of her shit just to see where it came from.” and that mental scar will probably stay with me the rest of my life.
philycheezestake, Me too…
lolgcat, Is this a military thing? One of the characters in Generation Kill says this in the first episode.
Aryuproudomenowdaddy, Possibly? I think he might of been in the military but I’ve never heard him talk about it.
goforliftoff, Two that I often quote:
Into each life, a little rain must fall. (almost always delivered sarcastically)
And:
Well, people in hell want ice water.
I loved that woman. Wish I would have known her better.
vis4valentine, 
Into each life, a little rain must fall.
I think this is a phrase in a song from The Ink Spots.
Venicon, 
Correct! And also a Queen song from 1989.
lowcarbbq, “Better an empty house, than a bad tenant” after every loud fart.
harlatan, i use a very similar one, in german we say: everything that doesn’t pay rent gets thrown out
BallShapedMan, My grandma would say “he can put his boots at the foot of my bed.” My grandma had the hots for lots of younger country singers.
BakingCookies, 
My mom used to say Robert Redford could park his shoes under her bed anytime.
CannotSleep420, 
Not a catch phrase, but one day my grandfather showed up at the house unannounced asking me to bury his pet cat that had recently died in my back yard.
TheButtonJustSpins, This took a turn.
queermunist, 
In response to someone saying “oh my god” every single time, without fail:
“Well he’s my god too!”
radix, 
Our god.
(Cue L’Internationale.)
SinningStromgald, Comrade?
tokebakicitte, My dad would say “my name is dad” to people saying “oh my god” to anything he did
Bishma, 
“You don’t have to shovel rain.” - My grandfather when asked why he moved the family from Wisconsin to Oregon.
Piecemakers3Dprints, 
Now, that’s wisdom I can get behind! 🤙🏼 (raised out yonder in the mitten, now happily left coast rooted)
pianokd11, (Insert place) was so empty you could throw a cow through it!
ada, 
“How’d you seem to be this morning?”
Emperor, 
My maternal grandfather said “By Jove” a lot.
My paternal grandfather had a lot of sayings: “here’s me head, me arse is coming”, “she walks with a bit of a run”, etc - typing them out a lot had to do with the way people walked. There are more though.
sbv, In like Flynn.
What does that even mean?
ilovededyoupiggy, 
“In like Flynn” is a slang phrase meaning “having quickly or easily achieved a goal or gained access as desired.”
tungah, My grandfather: “Life is hard only for those who are soft.”
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