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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.

Lewis Grizzard

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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Attitude Call Cat Dog Myself Yourself
I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.
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Family Grow Home Myself Small
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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Death Delight Improvement Life Occasion Sick Study Way
Sex hasn’t been the same since women started enjoying it.
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Enjoyment Sex Start Woman
Spring time is the land awakening.
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Awaken Land Time
It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.
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Difficult Eat Happiness Thinking
If you are not the lead dog, your scenery never changes.
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Change Dog Leadership Yourself
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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Change Different Language Talk Understand Word
There is something wrong when you wait in line thirty minutes to get a hamburger that was cooked for ninety seconds an hour ago.
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Food Time Wrong Yourself
Money doesn’t grow on trees, and if it did somebody else would own the orchard.
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Farm Grow Money Tree
I’d much rather sit next to a smoker in a restaurant than a nose-blower.
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Myself Restaurant Smoking
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
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Life Sexuality Sick
There’s no such thing as being too Southern.
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Identity Personality South
Kinky sex involves the use of duck feathers. Perverted sex involves the whole duck.
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Animal Difference Sex
They tore out my heart and stomped that sucker flat.
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Heart Myself
Elvis is dead and I don’t feel so good for myself.
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Death Feeling Goodness Myself
I get letters from people who say, ‘What have you got against women?’ What could I possibly have against women? I’ve married three of them.
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Letters Marriage Myself People Possible Woman
There’s nothing inherently dirty about sex, but if you try real hard and use your imagination you can overcome that.
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Dirty Hard Inheritance Reality Sex Yourself
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.
LEWIS GRIZZARD

Happiness Hate Man Myself Peace
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.
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Football Game Life Opportunity Problem Score Yourself
Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
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Change Dog Leadership Life Race
Let’s all start walking more and driving less.
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Drive Start Vehicle Walk
The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards.
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Fry Himself Idiot
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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Creativity Language Life Passion Soul Teaching Work
Baptists never make love standing up. They’re afraid someone might see them and think they’re dancing.
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Afraid Dance Love Stand Thinking
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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Crazy Discussion Ideas Male Open Relationship Yourself
When My Love Returns from the Ladies Room, Will I Be Too Old to Care?
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Care Funny Lady Love Myself Old Room Time

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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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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