I Will Go To Texas Quotes

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig.

Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

I would rather have a square inch of New York than all the rest of the world.

Stolen kisses require an accomplice.

He bought me so many orchids that I looked like a well-kept grave.

Always take a good look at what you're about to eat. It's not so important to know what it is, but it's critical to know what it was

Just 'cause you're following a well-marked trail don't mean that whoever made it knew where they were goin'.

It's easy to see things you're lookin' for. The trick is to see things you're not looking for.

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a raindance.

Better a square foot of New York than all the rest of the world in a lump - better a lamppost on Broadway than the brightest star in the sky.

Never be too quick to criticize yourself. It's not fair to all of your friends and relatives, who are dying to do it for you.

Success has killed more men than bullets.

Speak your mind, but ride a fast horse.

A guy who'd cheat on his wife would cheat at cards.

Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points.

Don't eat bear balls. Eat healthy, delectable, plant-based foods so that you will never fall over on your cat.

The real lowdown on gardening is ... dirt.

When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird.

[Bobby Tom] finally understood Gracie's function in his life. She was God's joke on him.

Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living.

I happen to be immature, undisciplined, and self-centered, pretty much a little boy in a man's body, although I'd appreciate it if you didn't quote me on that.-Bobby Tom

When the Lakota chief Red Cloud finally quit fighting the intruders, he reportedly told a white delegation, "We didn't need all this land, and neither did you.

Really, there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute. The Lord had an answer and it would surely come. (p. 203)

The world was a shitpot with a barbed-wire handle and the further he could kick it the better he liked it.

Yes. I really love you, Becky, and when you love someone that much, the pain and the pleasure is that much more intense. But forgiveness is a given.

God sure hadn't done His menfolk any favors when He's made women such a puzzlement.

You can just about always stand more 'n you think you can.

There's a lot more to ridin' a horse than just sittin' in the saddle and lettin' yer feet hang down.

What kind of woman am I?" she asked. "My kind." He grinned.

Last month, I didn't even have the prospect of a relationship. Now I've got one cowboy too many, " she said.

A man who listened? Had she found the eighth wonder of the world?

Sometimes you've got to get a machete and hack your way through the kudzu to make your own path in life.

Caring is weakness, and weakness is death.

Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.

She'd grown up believing in hell in an abstract nightmare way

You can all go to hell