A LITTLE COMMON SENSE FROM AN OLD COWBOY ...

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.

Forgive your enemies; it messes up their heads.

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

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.

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

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

Always drink upstream from the herd.

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

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible, is by going beyond them into the impossible."

Arthur C Clarke

"Most people aren't interested in sexual gymnastics; they simply want someone kind and keen."

Rowan Pelling

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second rate version of somebody else."

Judy Garland

"I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that will not work."

Thomas Edison

Ughhh...In less than a month, the youngest will be gone for college.

I am so not ready for this

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear."

Ambrose Redmoon

"Elevate them guns a little lower"

Andrew Jackson

"In order to be old and wise; you first must be young and stupid."

Unknown

"Don't feel bad if people only remember you when they need you. Feel privileged that you are like a candle that comes to their minds when there is darkness."

Unknown.

"Sometimes life just sucks, and all we can do is go to our happy place where we plot our revenge."

Antsy McClain

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

Albert Einstein

You have three choices in life.

Give in.

Give up.

Or give it your all.

"Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts"

Luc de Clapiers

There is an annual contest at Texas A&M Unniversity calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term. In one, the term was "Political Correctness". The winner wrote:

"Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of shit by the clean end"

"Reputation is what others know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself."

Lois McMaster Bujuold

"A goal is not always meant to be reached. It often serves simply as something to aim at"

Bruce Lee

"Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use."

Ruth Gordon

"Most girls want a guy who would hold an umbrella over their head and carry them over puddles. I want a guy who would steal my umbrella, jump in the puddles just to splash me, and kiss me before I could yell at him."

Unknown

"When I was 5 years old, my mother told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down HAPPY. They told me that I did not understand the assignment. I told them they did not understand life."

John Lennon

Boys play house; men build homes.

Boys shack up; men get married.

Boys make babies; men raise children.

A boy won't raise his own children; a man will raise someone else's.

Boys invent excuses for failure; men produce strategies for success.

Boys look for someone to take care of them; men look for someone to take care of.

Boys seek popularity; men demand respect and know how to give it.

Unknown

Rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.

Unknown

Real People are not perfect.

Perfect people are not real.

"When you think you are screwed, just remember; we are on a big, wet ball floating in the dark"

Unknown