* Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tightand 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 aJohn 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 meanerthan you. * It don't take a very big person to carry agrudge. * 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 botherin' 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 everhave to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin'. * Always drink upstream from the herd. * Good judgment comes from experience, and alotta that comes from bad judgment. * Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole loteasier than puttin' it back in. * If you get to thinkin' you're a person of someinfluence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around. * Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply.Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.
* Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads
could you explain that to me? I think it is interesting
These are country folks wisdom sayings.... and it sounds like things my country folks would say. Country folks have animals around them and so some of the wisdom has to do with how the animals behave and how to deal with them. And sometimes we can substitute the word 'people' for 'animals', cuz sometimes we're not all that different.
'to wallow with pigs we can expect to get dirty' means that when we hang out with people who are into bad stuff,, we are going to have that bad stuff on us too.
the 'forgive your enemies cuz it messes up their heads' can mean that our enemies are expecting us to be mad and fight, and when we don't,,, when we forgive them and act positive they can't figure it out.
I like the one that is that letting the cat out of the bag is a lot easier than putting it back in. and * Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time.
thanks , Rick
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A few colloquialisms from a friend in Kansas City.
UGLY: as a homemade baby UGLY: as 1000 toads on a mud fence UGLY: He's so ugly, he's gotta sneak up on a glass of water to get a drink AS WELCOME: as cat shit on a pump handle STUPID: as a sackful of hammers NERVOUS: as a long--tailed cat in a room of rocking chairs USELESS: as tits on a boar hog COLDER: than a well-digger's ass SO HUNGRY: I could eat the south end out of a north bound skunk HORNIER: than a three peckered billy goat FUN: I aint had this much fun since the hogs ate Junior. DUMB: He's got the brains God gave a toilet plunger NAIVE: He could be thrown in a barrel full of tits and come out sucking his thumb STUPID: Couldn't scratch his ass if he had a tiger in each hand USELESS: as a one legged man at a butt kicking contest DECEPTION: Don't piss on my back and tell me it's raining. BUSIER: than a one armed paper hanger TIGHTER: (more stingy) than a bull's ass in fly time (My sponsor used this expression to characterize the stinginess of the recovered alcoholic, who still puts 1 dollar in the basket, when 1 dollar is worth 1/10 of what it was 30 years ago)
One of my favs .. "He's from KIRKSVILLE (or substitute your favorite town) where the men are men and the goats are scared."
PS. Here in Pennsylvania we actually have towns named Bird-in-Hand, Blue Ball and Intercourse.
Okay, now, my maiden name is Kirk, LOL. And actually, my original kin, from Scotland, settled there in Penn. and were chased out for stealing (now get this) PIGS. Not a prized race horse, not a good milk cow, but noisy squealing pigs. Gee, wonder why they got caught? My G'pa Kirk had some interesting sayings, but I dont repeat them even to myself........
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