Lewis McDonald Grizzard, Jr. quotes and words of wisdom

"It"s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato."
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"Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain"t the lead dog, the scenery never changes."
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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?""
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""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."
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Interesting Quotes

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives.Abba Eban - Israeli (S. African-born) diplomat & politician (1915 - 2002)

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.T. E. Lawrence