If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.

I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.

I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours, know everybody in the state of Texas and around outside, why, you could spend your life going to weddings. But a funeral, that's different. You only die once.

Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?

It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.