mv wrote:
Grandma: "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?"
I got that from my grandmother, too! When my husband proposed, she wrote us a note in which she said, "I can't say I expected this." (She's really a mean old lady.) My husband and I had been living together for a while. I used to think, a) I am not a cow and b) I'm getting "milk" too!
My parents' weren't gender specific.
"Look at me when I'm talking to you!"
"Don't use that tone with me, young lady."
"If you're going to stand there and stare into space, go do it somewhere else!"
I think I have the only mother ever who meant the following as a compliment:
"Oh, I hope you have a daughter just like you when you grow up!"