Helpful Hillbilly Sayings
Keep skunks and bankers at a distance.
Life is simpler when you plow around the stumps.
Mortgaging a future crop is 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.
July 5th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
The back of a tree is the side you shit behind
July 5th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
I must be a true hillbilly because everyone of those made sense. Good sense.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:45 am
“Don’t sell your mule to buy a plow.”
I think that the US Congress could use a good, strong dose of this right upside the head. Preferrably with it written on a 2×4.
July 6th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
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July 6th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
“You can’t unsay a cruel thing.”
Some of the so-called “comedians” should remember that.