“Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.”

“Keep skunks and bankers at a distance.”

“Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.”

“A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.”

“Words that soak into your ears are whispered…....not yelled.”

“Meanness don't just happen overnight.”

“Forgive your enemies; it messes up their heads.”

“Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.”

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

“You cannot unsay a cruel word.”

“Every path has a few puddles.”

“When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.”

“The best sermons are lived, not preached.”

“Most of the stuff people worry about, ain't never gonna happen anyway.”

“Don 't judge folks by their relatives.

“Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.”

“Live a good and 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 bothering you none.”

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

“If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.”

“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.”

“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.”

“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, and
speak kindly”

“Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.”

nice post... haha, i can picture some ole bastard saying that stuff!

Nice! :)

Better than nice.

Nicer?

OK. I think the "er" suffix works here.

Great advice, I love it.

I like

Yup!

“Most of the stuff people worry about, ain't never gonna happen anyway.”

I like this one the most.

It is absolutely true. There are a hundred things you worry about, and 95 of them never come true.

But five do.

And when you start to worry about the first hundred, you DON'T KNOW which five are the ones to come true.

So you worry about all one hundred, and take steps to prevent them. Or lessen their damage should you prevent them from happening.

If you do that, the five that do come eventually true, will cause less damage than originally would have if you hadn't protected yourself for the eventuality of their happening.

So for this saying to have any practical value, you must know ahead of time which five to worry about from the total 100. You cannot know that. So what do you do? You prepare to protect from some of the 100 but not all? What?

If this farmer could tell you which 95 not to worry about, then the advice could help you gain peace of mind. But the advice is mum on the precision downsizing of worries. It just says the truth, but nothing of value about the truth. It's like saying, "the sky is blue" and that is absolutely true, but what use does this knowledge serve when passed from one person to another? Zilch.

To say "don't worry about the things not to worry about" is smart, but useless, when you are not told which of all your worries are unfounded.