Advice from An Old Farmer

[cooperhawk]

Thoughts to live by.

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 jes’ 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, 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. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.
Don’t pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he’ll just kill you.
Most times, it just gets down to common sense.

[GunnyGene]

The mysteries of life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9_X_5ftSt0

[Cofisher]

Words to live by. Common sense and wisdom are countered by flashy media. But, will win out in time.

Thanks for the post.

[dasmoeturhead]

Sound Wisdom!

[BigAl52]

That pick a fight with an old man is true just try to go get Toilet paper on a day when the stores have special hours for seniors.

[Rifletom]

Needed that 'hawk. Pretty good. And true.

[RanchRoper]

Good stuff.

[BrokenolMarine]

I like it.
Some are just funny.
Some are true wisdom.

[Vaquero]

There was a farmer who grew excellent quality corn. Every year he won the award for the best grown corn. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors. “How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?” the reporter asked.
“Why sir,” said the farmer, “Didn’t you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn.”
So is with our lives... Those who want to live meaningfully and well must help enrich the lives of others, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must help others find happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all...
-Call it power of collectivity...
-Call it a principle of success...
-Call it a law of life.
The fact is, none of us truly wins, until we all win!!

RP

[Travlin]

Three rules of life know where the exit is, know where the bathroom is, and get in good with the cook.

[clovishound]

The outhouse is always 100 yds too close to the house in summer, and 100 yds too far away in winter.

[RanchRoper]

Drink upstream from the herd and don't squat with your spurs on.

[Mistered]

That pick a fight with an old man is true

True? Have there been any cases of 'old men' killing people over toilet paper?

[RanchRoper]

That pick a fight with an old man is true just try to go get Toilet paper on a day when the stores have special hours for seniors.

Have there been any cases of 'old men' killing people over toilet paper?

Yes but nothing to do with the virus.