Joel Chandler Harris Quotes

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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.

Joel Chandler Harris
Hop light, ladies,
Oh, Miss Loo!
Oh, swing dat yaller gal!
Do, boys, do!

Joel Chandler Harris
W'en ole man Rabbit say "scoot," dey scooted, en w'en old Miss Rabbit say "scat," dey scatted.

Joel Chandler Harris
I seem to see before me the smiling faces of thousands of children some young and fresh and some wearing the friendly marks of age. But all children at heart and not an unfriendly face among them. And while I'm trying hard to speak the right word, I seem to hear a voice lifted above the rest saying you have made some of us happy. And so I feel my heart fluttering and my lips trembling, and I have to bow silently and turn away and hurry back into the obscurity that fits me best.

Joel Chandler Harris
Youk'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke?

Joel Chandler Harris
'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.

Joel Chandler Harris
Watch out w'en you'er gittin all you want. Fattenin' hogs ain't in luck.

Joel Chandler Harris
Licker talks mighty loud w'en it gits loose from de jug.

Joel Chandler Harris
Hit look lak sparrer-grass, hit feel like sparrer-grass, hit tas'e lak sparrer-grass, en I bless ef 'taint sparrer-grass.

Joel Chandler Harris
You do de pullin', Sis Cow, en I'll do de gruntin'.

Joel Chandler Harris
Hongry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.

Joel Chandler Harris
Tar-baby ain't sayin' nuthin', en Brer Fox, he lay low.

Joel Chandler Harris
Brer Rabbit keep on axin' 'im, en de Tar-Baby, she keep on sayin' nothin', twel present'y Brer Rabbit draw back wid his fis', he did, en blip he tuck 'er side er de head. Right dar's whar he broke his merlasses jug. His fis' stuck, en he can't pull loose. De tar hilt 'im.

Joel Chandler Harris
When folks git ole en strucken wid de palsy, dey mus' speck ter be laff'd at.

Joel Chandler Harris
You know w'at de jay-bird say ter der squinch-owls!, "I'm sickly but sassy."

Joel Chandler Harris