Thread: Grampa's Country Wisdom -

- Don't name a pig you plan to eat
- 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.
- Life is simpler when you plow around the stumps.
- Mortgaging a future crop is saddling a wobbly colt.
- 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 with snapping turtles.
- Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled.
- Meanness don'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.
- Forgive your enemies. It messes with their heads.
- Don't sell your mule to buy a plow.
- Two can live as cheap as one if one don't eat.
- You can't unsay a cruel thing.
- Don't corner something meaner than you.
- 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.
- Every path has some puddles.
- When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.
- The best sermons are lived, not preached.
- Most of the stuff people worry about happening, don't.
- Lazy and Quarrelsome are ugly sisters.

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

So true - you should see us run for the honey and from chasing mad people...lol

Very nice...makes you think....all true stuff ....good one KAte