Gunner’s Code

1.  The only rules are stuff like gravity and inertia.  Go ahead, try to disobey gravity.  Everything else is just suggestions and guidelines.

2. It’s never too late to go back and apologize.  But it’ll be a lot better if you don’t wait very long to do it.

3.  Everybody likes getting flowers.

4.  Everyone is trying his/her best.  Hard to believe, but there it is.  That “idiot” you’re honking at is really driving just as good as he can.  Your Dad, your Mom, that was actually the best they could do.

5.  It’s simple:  if they’re driving faster than you they are maniacs, if they’re going slower than you, they’re morons.

6.  Before they start dealing the cards take a long hard look at each player at the table.  If you can’t spot the chump, it’s you.

7.  No woman ever dated guy who yelled, whistled, made obscene gestures at her as he drove by.

8.  If you don’t see how pretty she is right now, just wait ‘til closing time.

9.  You could complain, but I bet it wouldn’t help anything.

10.  If you’re not livin’ out on the edge, you’re probably taking up too much space.

11.  Half of all the Doctors and Lawyers and Contractors and Plumbers – half of everybody – are below average.  Think about it.

12.  If you don’t wash the car before you show up, you don’t think highly enough of my daughter to take her out.

13. All women are beautiful.  If you can’t see it, it’s a failure of your vision.

14.  Every woman you meet is somebody’s daughter.   I have a daughter – apple of my eye.  ‘Nuff said.

15.  It takes a real man to be vulnerable.  Any bozo can put on armor.  Real men aren’t afraid to take that armor off.

16.  When you’re not sure what to do, put the gun down.

17.  The only time your finger belongs on the trigger is when the very next thing you’re going to do is fire.

18.  If you don’t know how, there’s no shame in asking.

19.  Either your horse is going with your plan or you’re going with your horse’s plan.

20.  It doesn’t need a bigger hammer, it needs more tools.

21.  The race isn’t always to the swift, but you’d be a fool to bet it any other way.

22.  If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, whatever it actually is, your best bet is to treat it like a duck.

23.  Saying a thing louder doesn’t make it truer.

24.  Trust your heart. 

25.  Power and force are different.  Power empowers others.  Force doesn’t.

26.  You can’t diminish the power of the words “I love you” except by not saying it when it’s true or saying it when it isn’t.

27.  The heart is like no other machine.  Sometimes the only way you can know if it’s working is by letting it get broken.

28.  They’re going to put something on your tombstone.  Do you really want it to be “We never really knew him all that well”?

29.  Go ahead and laugh.  Living in this world you have to see that God has a heck of a sense of humor.

30.  Everything in this Universe is constantly changing.  Everything.