The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.

My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.