Subject: Miscellaneous (Page 8)

Rehabilitation

You learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life.

American football player, coach & administrator

I said to my wife, ‘Guess what I heard in the pub? … They reckon the milkman has made love to every woman in this road except one’ and she said, ‘I’ll bet it’s that stuck-up Phyllis at number 23.’

typographer

Skin your own skunk

He sticks to that boy like white on rice.

When I think of all the hours and hours of my life I have spent watching television, it makes me realize, Man, I am really rich with television.

If enough people tell you you’re dead, you ought to lay down.

Just because a chicken has wings doesn't mean it can fly.

She couldn't keep her dress down.

Mean enough to charge hell with a quart of ice water.

Knee high to a grasshopper

Don’t ever get your speedometer confused with your clock, like I did once, because the faster you go, the later you think you are.

It’s as hot as blue blazes.

If you need somebody to push you in the creek, just lemme know.

Treated him like a red-headed stepchild.

He's tighter than a fiddle string

Well, shut my mouth.

About as useful as buttons on a dishrag

Nobody’s perfect… well there was this one guy, but we killed him…

(1957 – ) American author

To become a knife thrower in the circus, they probably don’t let you start off throwing at a live woman; they start you out with a little girl.

I don’t pretend to have all the answers; I don’t pretend to even know what the questions are… hey, where am I?