- Don't name a pig you plan to eat....
- Country fences need to be horse high, pig tight and bull strong....
- LIfe is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce...
- 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 go skinny dipping 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 doesn't take a very big person to carry a grudge....
- Don't go huntin' with a fellow named Chug-A-Lug....
- It's hard to unsay a cruel thing already said....
- 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, so don't pick up sticks to build bridges
you will never cross....- Lazy and Quarrelsome are ugly sisters....