Advice From A Canman
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.
Timin’ 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.
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Sage advice for the most part, However to skunks & bankers I would add politicians & doctors.
LOL way, you could be right 😀
Thanks Polliepie. A world of wisdom and funny too. I wish I knew how to download or capture these someway other than the old fashioned way.
Roseinbloom, you can copy any comments or posts by moving your mouse to the beginning of what you want to copy, hold down the left button on the mouse and at the same time drag the mouse over the text you want to copy. Release the left mouse button when all the text you want has been highlighted. Click the right button on the mouse and a window will open which gives you the option of either saving the text to your computer hard drive, or printing it out on your printer. Hope this helps. Pete
Thank you pollypie, great words of wisdom embedded in the blog
One I particularly like is
” We would worry far less what others think about us if we realised how rarely they do “