Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck. Votes: 11
People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago. Votes: 10
Please don't throw me in dat briar patch! Votes: 6
Lazy fokes's stummucks don't git tired. Votes: 6
I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee. Votes: 5
Jay-bird don't rob his own nes'. Votes: 3
Once upon a time a Georgian printed a couple of books that attracted notice, but immediately it turned out that he was little more than an amanuensis for the local blacks--that his works were really the products, not of white Georgia, but of black Georgia. Writing afterward as a white man, he swiftly subsided into the fifth rank. Votes: 2
I am in the prime of my senility. Votes: 2
Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing. Votes: 0
Licker talks mighty loud w'en it git loose fum de jug. Votes: 0
Hongry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum. Votes: 0
When folks git ole en strucken wid de palsy, dey mus' speck ter be laff'd at. Votes: 0