Money doesn’t grow on trees, and if it did somebody else would own the orchard.
LEWIS GRIZZARDThere’s nothing inherently dirty about sex, but if you try real hard and use your imagination you can overcome that.
More Lewis Grizzard Quotes
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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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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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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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I’d much rather sit next to a smoker in a restaurant than a nose-blower.
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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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When My Love Returns from the Ladies Room, Will I Be Too Old to Care?
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Baptists never make love standing up. They’re afraid someone might see them and think they’re dancing.
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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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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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Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
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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 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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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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