Lewis Grizzard Quotes

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.
Lewis Grizzard

Life, Game, Football

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.
Lewis Grizzard

Thoughts, Difficult, While

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'
Lewis Grizzard

Attitude, Dog, Call

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
Lewis Grizzard

Marriage, Woman, Give

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Lewis Grizzard

Dog, Changes, Lead

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.
Lewis Grizzard

Mistakes, Trying, Forgive

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one.
Lewis Grizzard

Mistakes, Trying, Forgive

There's no such thing as being too Southern.
Lewis Grizzard

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.
Lewis Grizzard

Family, Alone, Small

I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
Lewis Grizzard

Woman, Give, Find

If you ain't the lead dog, the view never changes.
Lewis Grizzard

Dog, Changes, View

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Lewis Grizzard

Life, Team, Dog

Sex hasn't been the same since women started enjoying it.
Lewis Grizzard

Women, Sex, Same

Show business is my life.
Lewis Grizzard

Life, Business, Show

Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.
Lewis Grizzard

Change, Mean, Different

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 20, 1946

Died: March 20, 1994

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