Subject: Miscellaneous (Page 59)

It’s like swimming through peanut butter.

Show your linen

Colder than a stepmother’s kiss

Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared.

He’d skin a flea for the hide and tallow.

His family tree is a trunk.

That's like putting a side saddle on a boar hog!

A bumblebee is faster than a tractor.

We in the short rows.

As full of wind as a corn-eating horse

Warning to all outer-space guys: you can capture me and put me in your space zoo if you like, but I will sit way in the back of my cage, where it’s hard to see me… and when I do come out, I won’t be wearing any pants.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,

Sermons and soda-water the day after.

(1788 – 1824) English poet

Crespin’s Law of Observation

She Offered Her Honor, He Honored Her Offer, and All Through the Night it Was Honor and Offer

Shut the light.

I ate dinner last night at a friend of mine’s house and he has – what do you call those things? … a baby.

(1949 – 2016) American comedian & television actor

Just because there is a rat in the barn doesn’t mean you need to burn it down.

That land is so poor two red-headed women couldn’t raise a fuss on it.

Boy howdy!

Beard,  West Virginia

She’d scare a haint up a thorn tree.