Hill Billy advice

[stdsch40]

Thought that some of you would appreciate this advice from an old Hill Billy:

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

You can't talk smarts to people that don't have any.©

You can lead a mule to a library, but you ain't gonna make it no smarter.©

Mike

 

[trackrat]

i have found that this is so true you can teach an ignorant person BUT you can't fix stupid

 

[Non-farmer]

To expand on the pig quote:

 

[SweetFeet]

Thought that some of you would appreciate this advice from an old Hill Billy:
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Lots of good advice in there.

 

[stdsch40]

To expand on the pig quote:

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Here is another fable about pigs by one of most favorite authors.

A very ancient Hindu fable:

Once upon a time a pig quarreled with a lion and summoned him to a duel. Having returned home, the pig changed his mind and got frightened. The entire herd assembled, deliberated awhile and decided thus:-- Now, pig, here in the vicinity there is a ditch; go and take a good roll in its mud, and in this garb proceed to the place of the duel. You will see.

The pig acted accordingly. Presently the lion appeared on the scene, sniffed, frowned and walked away. For a long time afterward the pig kept boasting that the lion turned coward and ran away from the battlefield.

Such is the fable. Of course, in Russia there are no lions: the climate does not suit them, and, besides, this would be too grand a setting. But substitute for the lion a decent man—and every man has to be decent--and the moral will be identical.

Feodor Dostoievsky

 

[Fawteen]

Too often I fail to heed this advice: "Nothing. Often the best thing to do, Always the best thing to say."