I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.
LEWIS GRIZZARDLife is like a dogsled race. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
More Lewis Grizzard Quotes
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Spring time is the land awakening.
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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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When My Love Returns from the Ladies Room, Will I Be Too Old to Care?
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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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Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
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I’d much rather sit next to a smoker in a restaurant than a nose-blower.
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It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.
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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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Let’s all start walking more and driving less.
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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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Money doesn’t grow on trees, and if it did somebody else would own the orchard.
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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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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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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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