The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.
LEWIS GRIZZARDThere is something wrong when you wait in line thirty minutes to get a hamburger that was cooked for ninety seconds an hour ago.
More Lewis Grizzard Quotes
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Let’s all start walking more and driving less.
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It’s better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.
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Kinky sex involves the use of duck feathers. Perverted sex involves the whole duck.
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Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and give her a house.
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Today’s sensitive male has learned to share in open frank discussions about relationships like, “Where the hell did you get a crazy idea like that? You been reading Redbook again?”
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They tore out my heart and stomped that sucker flat.
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Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life’s work.
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Spring time is the land awakening.
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The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life’s most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it.
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You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, ‘What’s in it for me?’
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I finally figured it out, I finally figured out how to find some peace and happiness. I sure would hate for the man upstairs to take me now. But at least I did figure it out.
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Yankees don’t understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.
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I’d much rather sit next to a smoker in a restaurant than a nose-blower.
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There’s no such thing as being too Southern.
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I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.
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