I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone

He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.