wisdom

Country fences need to be horse high, pig tight, and bull strong.

· Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.

· Keep skunks, insurance salesmen, lawyers and bankers at a distance.


· Don't name a pig you plan to eat.

· Life is simpler when you plow around the stumps.

· A bumble bee is faster than a John Deere tractor.

· Trouble with a milk cow is, she won't stay milked.

· Don't skinny dip in the cow pond with snapping turtles.

· Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled.

· Meanness doesn't happen overnight.

· To know how country folks are doing, look at their barns, not their houses.

· Never lay an angry hand on a kid or an animal, it just ain't helpful.

· Teachers, bankers, and hoot owls sleep with one eye open.

· Forgive your enemies. It messes with their minds.

· Don't sell your mule to buy a plow.

· Two can live as cheap as one if one don't eat.

· Don't chase anything meaner than yourself into a corner.

· You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar, that is assuming that you want to catch flies.

· Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as flowers or weeds.

· It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.

· Don't go huntin' with a fellow named Chug-A-Lug.

· You can't unsay a cruel statement.

· Every path has some puddles.

· Never wallow in the pigpen with the pigs. You'll just get dirty, and the pigs like it.

· The best sermons are lived, not preached.

· Most of the stuff people worry about, never happens anyway.

· Don't judge folks by their relatives.

· Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

· Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time.

· Don't interfere with somethin' that ain't botherin' you none.

· Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

· Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.

· The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin'.

· Always drink upstream from the herd.

· Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back in.

· If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around.

· Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.