An Old Farmer's Advice:

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

• Keep skunks, bankers and lawyers 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 isn't never going to 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 something that isn'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 digging.

• 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 morning.

• Always drink upstream from the herd.

• Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

• Letting the cat out of the bag is a whole lot easier than putting it back in.

• If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.