Advice to live our lives by…

Keep skunks and bankers at a distance.

A bumble bee is considerably faster than an analogue push bike

Words that soak into your ears are whispered… not yelled.

Meanness doesn’t just happen overnight.

Forgive your enemies; it messes up their heads.

Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you. 

It doesn’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 ever gonna happen anyway.

      40% of the things we worry about never happen                                                                        30% are in the past and can't be helped.                                                                                    12% involve the affairs of others that are not our business                                                        10% relate to sickness, real or imagined                                                                                    Thus only 8% of the things we worry about are likely to happen

Don’t judge folks by their relatives.

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

Live a good, honourable 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.

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

      Go to the mirror and look at myself.  It is not everyone else's judgement that count.            but what I see in the mirror.  This is the verdict that counts.  He is the fellow to please.        I've  passed the most difficult test if the man in the glass is my friend.  If I've fooled.            the. world, i'll still end up with tears, if I've cheated the man in the glass.

Always drink upstream from the herd.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.

Letting the cat outta 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..

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.

Most times, it just comes down to common sense.