w/apologies to city slickers like that rascal Haskell :tongue
? A bumblebee is faster than a John Deere tractor.
? Country fences need to be horse high, pig tight and bull strong.
? Don't corner something meaner than you.
? Don't go huntin' with a fellow named Chug-A-Lug.
? Don't name a pig you plan to eat.
? Don't sell your mule to buy a plow.
? Don't skinny dip with snapping turtles.
? Every path has some puddles.
? Forgive your enemies. It messes with their heads.
? It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.
? Keep skunks and bankers at a distance.
? Lazy and Quarrelsome are ugly sisters.
? Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.
? Life is simpler when you plow around the stumps.
? Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as
flowers or weeds.
? Meanness don't happen overnight.
? Mortgaging a future crop is saddling a wobbly colt.
? Most of the stuff people worry about happening, don't.
? 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.
? The best sermons are lived, not preached.
? To know how country folks are doing, look at their barns, not their houses.
? Trouble with a milk cow is she won't stay milked.
? Two can live as cheap as one if one don't eat.
? When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.
? Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled.
? You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar, assuming you want to catch flies.
? You can't unsay a cruel thing.
? A bumblebee is faster than a John Deere tractor.
? Country fences need to be horse high, pig tight and bull strong.
? Don't corner something meaner than you.
? Don't go huntin' with a fellow named Chug-A-Lug.
? Don't name a pig you plan to eat.
? Don't sell your mule to buy a plow.
? Don't skinny dip with snapping turtles.
? Every path has some puddles.
? Forgive your enemies. It messes with their heads.
? It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.
? Keep skunks and bankers at a distance.
? Lazy and Quarrelsome are ugly sisters.
? Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.
? Life is simpler when you plow around the stumps.
? Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as
flowers or weeds.
? Meanness don't happen overnight.
? Mortgaging a future crop is saddling a wobbly colt.
? Most of the stuff people worry about happening, don't.
? 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.
? The best sermons are lived, not preached.
? To know how country folks are doing, look at their barns, not their houses.
? Trouble with a milk cow is she won't stay milked.
? Two can live as cheap as one if one don't eat.
? When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.
? Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled.
? You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar, assuming you want to catch flies.
? You can't unsay a cruel thing.
