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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?"

  • They tore out my heart and stomped that sucker flat.

    Heart   Sadness   Flats  
    Lewis Grizzard (2014). “Chili Dawgs Always Bark at Night”, p.12, NewSouth Books
  • Spring time is the land awakening.

    Spring   Land   Awakening  
    Lewis Grizzard (1990). “Gettin' it on: a down-home treasury”, BBS Publishing Corporation
  • If soccer was an American soft drink, it would be Diet Pepsi

    Soccer   Pepsi   Would Be  
  • It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

    Summer   Food   Garden  
  • 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.

    People   Letters   Three  
    Lewis Grizzard (1990). “Gettin' it on: a down-home treasury”, BBS Publishing Corporation
  • There's no such thing as being too Southern.

  • I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married.

  • Elvis is dead and I don't feel so good for myself.

  • Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.

  • 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.

    Hate   Men   Aging  
  • If you are not the lead dog, your scenery never changes.

  • Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

  • 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.

    Mean   Yankees   Talking  
  • When My Love Returns from the Ladies Room, Will I Be Too Old to Care?

    "They Tore Out My Heart and Stomped That Sucker Flat".
  • There is something wrong when you wait in line thirty minutes to get a hamburger that was cooked for ninety seconds an hour ago.

    Lewis Grizzard (1995). “Life Is Like a Dogsled Team . . . If You're Not the Lead Dog, the Scenery Never Changes: The Wit and Wisdom of Lewis Grizzard”, Longstreet Press
  • Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

    Leadership   Dog   Race  
  • 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.

    Trying   Locks   Frozen  
    Lewis Grizzard (1990). “Gettin' it on: a down-home treasury”, BBS Publishing Corporation
  • I'd much rather sit next to a smoker in a restaurant than a nose-blower.

    Smoking   Noses   Next  
  • On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.

    Travel   New York   Fun  
  • I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

  • 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?'

    Funny   Dog   Attitude  
  • There's nothing inherently dirty about sex, but if you try real hard and use your imagination you can overcome that.

    Love   Funny   Life  
    Lewis Grizzard (1989). “Don't Bend Over in the Garden, Granny, You Know Them Taters Got Eyes”, Ballantine Books
  • Sex hasn't been the same since women started enjoying it.

    Love   Life   Sex  
    Lewis Grizzard (1995). “Life Is Like a Dogsled Team . . . If You're Not the Lead Dog, the Scenery Never Changes: The Wit and Wisdom of Lewis Grizzard”, Longstreet Press
  • God bless Merle Haggard. He did all the things that Johnny Cash was supposed to have done.

    Done   Cash   God Bless  
    Lewis Grizzard (1995). “Life Is Like a Dogsled Team . . . If You're Not the Lead Dog, the Scenery Never Changes: The Wit and Wisdom of Lewis Grizzard”, Longstreet Press
  • Let's all start walking more and driving less.

    Lewis Grizzard (1994). “The Last Bus to Albuquerque: A Commemorative Edition Celebrating Lewis Grizzard”, Longstreet Press
  • Kinky sex involves the use of duck feathers. Perverted sex involves the whole duck.

    Sex   Ducks   Use  
  • If Love Were Oil, / I'd Be About a Quart Low.

    Love   Oil   Lows  
    Lewis Grizzard (2014). “Chili Dawgs Always Bark at Night”, p.2, NewSouth Books
  • In the south there's a difference between 'Naked' and 'Nekkid.' 'Naked' means you don't have any clothes on. 'Nekkid' means you don't have any clothes on and you're up to somethin'.

  • "Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't want you winding up on the third shift at Flagg-Utica." Flagg-Utica was a local textile plant. Somehow, I never could figure how failing to read three chapters in my geography book about the various sorts of vegetation to be found in a tropical rain forest had anything to do with facing a life as a mill hand. But with enough guilt and fear as catalysts, you can read anything, even geography books and Deuteronomy.

    Mother   Fear   Rain  
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    Lewis Grizzard

    • Born: October 20, 1946
    • Died: March 20, 1994
    • Occupation: Writer