Sunday, August 23, 2009 – Regarding the South
My God. We’ve had cloning in the South for years. It’s called cousins. ~ Robin Williams
The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody sober enough to stagger to the polls will. ~ Will Rogers
Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory. ~ Brooks Hays
Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They’re inexpensive and easy to procure. ~ Robert Penn Warren
In the South the war is what AD is elsewhere; they date from it. ~ Mark Twain
The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. ~ Margaret Mitchell
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. ~ Shana Alexander
It’s the South that maintains the idea that they’re different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares. ~ Josh Lucas
Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better. ~ Strom Thurmond
The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda. ~ Strom Thurmond
Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him. ~ Paul Eldridge
We have only one rule here – to act like a gentleman at all times. ~ Robert E. Lee
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust. ~ E. B. White
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. ~ Michel de Montaigne
Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art. ~ Charles McCabe
If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody. ~ Agatha Christie
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. ~ Henry Adams
Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ~ Oscar Wilde
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. ~ Brendan Gill
An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it. ~ Jef Mallett
Unrelated, but amusing –
Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in. ~ Evan Davis
Some mornings it just doesn’t seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. ~ Emo Phillips
Everybody hates me because I’m so universally liked. ~ Peter de Vries
Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia. ~ Charles M. Schulz
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. ~ Jay Leno
I hate life, I hate death and everything in between just doesn’t interest me. ~ Chris Rapier
I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out. ~ Steven Wright
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this. ~ Emo Phillips
There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through… There needs to be a monster truck option. ~ Jeph Jacques
Spare no expense to save money on this one. ~ Samuel Goldwyn
Just Above Sunset 