Subject: Miscellaneous (Page 18)

Bless your pea-pickin' heart.

Quieter than a graveyard

A little pain never hurt anyone.

Children need encouragement: if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he develops a good, lucky feeling.

He lives in your neck of the woods.

Looks like you came to a goat’s house for wool!

He's as mad as a wet hen.

Rest your features

Poor as gully dirt

Dumber than a sack full of hammers.

If the Vikings were around today, they would probably be amazed at how much glow-in-the-dark stuff we have, and how we take so much of it for granted.

Only if they don't work.

(Pauline Phillips) (1918 – 2013) American advice columnist

In the first castles, I bet a common mistake was putting the torture room next to the master bedroom. Boy, you’re just not going to get good sleep that way.

Ready with his hat and slow with his money

If [such and such happens] then it’s gonna be too wet to plow.

I try to be as nice to her as I possibly can, because one day I may need part of her liver.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

I never trust a man under sheets.

(1884 – 1980) author & wit

Boy, I will walk a mud hole in you and stomp it dry.

He looked like Death sucking a sponge.

We didn't plan to take 'em to raise.

Man was predestined to have free will.