Joel Chandler Harris

“I am in the prime of my senility.”

“When you've got a thing to say, Say it! Don't take half a day.When your tale's got little in itCrowd the whole thing in a minute! Life is short--a fleeting vapor--Don't you fill the whole blamed paperWith a tale which, at a pinch, Could be cornered in an inch!Boil her down until she simmers,Polish her until she glimmers.”

“Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.”

“You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far.”