He had a saying for every situation and the family gathered them up and put them in a book for him. I have transcribed them here as a tribute to a man who could be rough as the carpentry shipyard foreman he was in WWII, or sensitive to the point of tears when reflecting:

"Wasn't raised under a rock."

When he found an easier way to do something:
"I'm the lazy Ward boy."

"Pick 'um up,
lay 'um down."

"When I nod my head, hit it!"

Daylight in the swamp."

"A trick with a hole in it."

"Colder than a well digger's behind."

"We're living in the dinosaur era."

"When the days begin to lengthen , the cold begins to strengthen.

"Hands shoes" (gloves)

"That comes under the heading of things we can do without."

"It's in the book."

"Get a rope, get a rope!"

(on eating) "I've got this habit!"

On anything that didn't look just right or juryrigged but would work:
"If that______ says anything, you let me know."

"Detective Ward, Scotland Yard."

"That will hold us until we get to the Copper Kitchen." (a restaurant where he had a negative experience.)

While pulling out into traffic:
"Hold on!"

"You don't buy it if it's not on sale or wholesale."

"School of hard knocks."

"I buy you books and buy you books and teach you all I know and still you don't know nothing!"

He had some physical difficulties. "Dogs" refer to feet:
"Got to get off my dogs, my gimpy legs won't hold me up."

"Walk alive!"

His hands were almost frozen from arthritis in a hook shape:
"Hook fits the steering wheel and the lawn-mower handle."

"dollar waiting on a dime."

"Grandma" was the best cook in the state:
"A dinner fit for a king."

"It'll do till something better comes along."

"Gotta have the right tool."

"Look alive."

The farm was on a well and for some reason, referring to the bathroom faucet:
"Coldest water's in the bathroom."

Referring to the good taste of his well:
"Can't beat the water."

If he felt you were working a tool too slow:
"Get a faster ____!"
"Is that the fastest ____?"

Ask if he was ready:
"Ready's Brother."

On food:
"Take what you want, but eat what you take."
Take some and leave some."
"Two kinds of pie - hot and cold."

"Take the best, then you'll always have the best left."

When he needed help with small things his "hooks" couldn't negotiate, he always called for his (a family member):
"Nimble fingers."

"Location! Location! Location!"

"One of the best, and better than the rest."

"Good as the best and better than the rest."

To those on the farm he was teaching something to:
"You're getting an education out here."

On picking up something hot, dropping it, and being ask if it was hot:
"Doesn't take long to look at a horseshoe."

"The best is hardly good enough."

"Good enough for who it's for."

Refering to a schrewd deal:
"Abie, Abie." rubs hands, rubs nose."

"Never lead with your chin"

"Fords, pickups, and foreigns - fix or repair daily."

When he was going to draw what he wanted to build, he referred to them as his:
"Chinese Hieroglyphics."

Looking out to the west leaning on the gate waiting for the milking machines to finish:
"We have a better view from the barn than most people have from their house."

"McGee"

"Can't get anything done sitting down."

"That's what it says in the book."

Refering to the farm:
"It's not a living, it's a way of life."

"Take two; they're small."

"Pick it up and run with it!"

"Walk like you're going somewhere!"

"Yaa-but!"

"Hit it like you mean it." (Hammer to nail, etc.)

Refering to work:
"If you have one boy, you have one boy.
If you have two boys, you have half a boy.
If you have three boys, you have no boys at all!"

"Every time I pick up something around here to do something, I have two pieces." (to fix before I get started.)

To the question, "Where's Grandma?"
"Down cellar in a tea cup."

Referring to his life:
"On the downhill side."

If he really thought you were doing something stupid:
(vigerously shaking his head)
"Dumb-dee, dumb, dumb, dumb!"

"Workways" (plans or map oriented to the lay of the project or the land.)

Anytime he replaced something of signifigance - car, washing machine, etc.:
"That'll see me out."

"Fix it up,
Wear it out,
Make it do,
or do without."

Whe ask a question he didn't have an answer for or didn't want to tell you:
"With out knowing, I can not state with any degree of accuracy..."