Author Topic: SAGE ADVICE  (Read 1876 times)

tizaala

  • Joined Mar 2011
  • Dolau, Llandrindod Wells,Powys
SAGE ADVICE
« on: April 03, 2013, 09:13:23 am »
I just found this on FB
 
Old Farmer's Advice:

... 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.


Berkshire Boy

  • Joined May 2011
  • Presteigne, Powys
Re: SAGE ADVICE
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2013, 09:27:27 am »
That's a good list to live by.
Everyone makes mistakes as the Dalek said climbing off the dustbin.

Beeducked

  • Joined Jan 2012
Re: SAGE ADVICE
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2013, 09:30:36 pm »
Hard to argue with any of that. :)


You don't want these bloody sheep back do you? Just spent 2 hours trying to catch them and get them back home after their recent escape. It was so much fun we get to do it all again tomorrow as failed and it got dark and the grass is so much greener in the field they have found (must be although it looks the same to me).










Only joking as love them and can't imagine being without them but I am not a woman built for chasing wooly gazelles!

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: SAGE ADVICE
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2013, 12:09:36 am »
That makes a lot of sense, Doug.

Kate, I'd love to see you herding sheep.   :roflanim: Maybe you need a dog.

 

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