Some Old Country Sayings

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Keeping in line with my last post, here's some old country sayings. Some of 'em may sound kinda hokey, but there's a powerful lot of wisdom here!

• Keep skunks and bankers at a distance.
• Life is simpler when you plow around the stumps.
• Mortgaging a future crop is like saddling a wobbly colt.
• A bumble bee is faster than a John Deere tractor.
• Trouble with a milk cow is she won't stay milked.
• Don't skinny dip with snapping turtles.
• Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled.
• Meanness don't happen overnight.
• To know how country folks are doing, look at their barns, not their houses.
• Never lay an angry hand on a kid or an animal, it just ain't helpful.
• Teachers, bankers, and hoot owls sleep with one eye open.
• Forgive your enemies. It messes with their heads.
• Don't sell your mule to buy a plow.
• Two can live as cheap as one if one don't eat.
• Don't corner something meaner than you.
• You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar, assuming you want to catch flies.
• Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as flowers or weeds.
• It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.
• Don't go huntin' with a fellow named Chug-A-Lug.
• You can't unsay a cruel thing.
• Every path has some puddles.
• When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.
• The best sermons are lived, not preached.
• Most of the stuff people worry about never happens.
• Lazy and Quarrelsome are ugly sisters.