Sayings by and for Southerners

[Tidewater]

A friend of mine compiled these. I share them as my Christmas present to my Tidefans friends.
Some are thought provoking others are good for a chuckle.

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals can believe them. –Orwell

I believe you love me—God knows why? –Yates Snowden

Even if the GOP can’t see the light they can feel the heat. “We’ve got to protect our phoney-baloney jobs!” –James Fulford [editor's note: wasn't that Governor William J. LePetomaine?]

For all practical purposes, today’s press is an arm of government. –Fred Reed

The instinct for Power is never about anything other than Power. It is not about Justice, Equality, Democracy, Freedom, Prosperity, Enlightenment, Progress. It is about itself, and for itself alone. –Chilton Williamson

Many intellectuals tend to be less talented than they imagine, and they tend to make less money than they think they deserve. –Karen Kwiatowski

The true division among mankind is between those who can distinguish what is true and just from their self-interest and those who cannot. –Unknown

Civilizations are founded not on ethical societies but on religions. –Cleanth Brooks

Back to work, and let well enough alone, let sleeping dogs lie. Good principles. –Robert Penn Warren

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. –H. L. Mencken

I do not see the national flag flying from the staff of the sycamore,
Or any decree of government written on the leaves of the walnut. –Wendell Berry

If only Longstreet had . . . . –O. Henry

 

[Bamaro]

Bless your heart

 

[seebell]

fixin to

 

[Bazza]

"I'm a Dreamer."
~ Herb Brooks

 

[Tidewater]

Bless your heart

Did you mean that in the southern way or should I say "thank you?"

 

[Tidewater]

It has been justly stated by a British writer that the power to make a small piece of paper, not worth one cent, by the inscribing of a few names, to be worth a thousand dollars, was a power too high to be entrusted to the hands of mortal man. –Calhoun, 1841

When it comes once to be understood that politics is a game; that those who are engaged in it but act a part; that they make this or that profession, not from honest conviction or intent to fulfill it, but as the means of deluding the people, and through that delusion to acquire power; when such professions are to be entirely forgotten, the people will lose all confidence in public men. All will be regarded as mere jugglers . . . and the people will become indifferent and passive to the grossest abuses of power, on the ground that those whom they may elevate, under whatever pledges, instead of reforming, will but imitate the example of those whom they have expelled. –Calhoun, 1835

“You are on the wrong side of history!” What a compliment! –Clyde Wilson

Once Lincoln destroyed the natural law notion of limits (respecting both human nature and tradition) and replaced it with his secular version of the Divine Right of Kings, the dominoes began to fall. –Chris Manion

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. –George Orwell

Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted but no one is capable of it anymore. Now people only want to think what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom. –Oswald Spengler

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, sayeth the Lord. –Jeremiah, 8:12

It is as if someone would kill a man to save him the trouble of dying. –Leopold Kohr on “preventive war”

Unhappily, there is nothing too ridiculous or too absurd to be believed, if demanded by the dominant spirit of an age or country. –Orestes Brownson

Although we shape our buildings, our buildings also shape us. –G.K. Chesterton

I’m from Georgia and have the advantage of loving two flags. All my life I was raised to fight for what those two flags represent. –Ferrol Sams

If only Longstreet had . . . . –O. Henry

 

[seebell]

TW your erudition has me outclassed!

I figured sayings by southerners would be things like;

"Maw, we need another Sears catalog in the out house!" or
"I love fatback in my turnip greens!"


"Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln

 

[Redwood Forrest]

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals can believe them. –Orwell

Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted but no one is capable of it anymore. Now people only want to think what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom. –Oswald Spengler

For all practical purposes, today’s press is an arm of government. –Fred Reed

I think these have a lot in common. It is sad.

One of my favorites and I don't know who said it: "He is educated beyond his intelligence." In college I met plenty of these.

 

[KentuckianaBFan]

"Let the slick end slide and the rough end drag"...unk

 

[Tidewater]

fixin to

That phrase used to get me odd looks when I used it in the company of yankees.

 

[GrayTide]

"Sometimes you have to pull down your pants and slide on the ice". Sidney Friedman, MD Captain US Army MASH 4077 Korea 1953.

 

[Tidewater]

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.–Jefferson
When did the South ever lay its hand on the North?–Calhoun

. . . it remains true that the bulk of modern monopoly or quasi monopoly is not the result of always irresistible economic forces, but simply the result of leaving great bodies of wealth free to attack and destroy lesser units. . . . The big man swallows up the small.–Belloc

A dog in office is obeyed.–Shakespeare

We have enjoyed fine dreams; we have dreamed of unifying the world; we are unifying it—against us.–Robinson Jeffers

Slaveholders are the scapegoats for the failures of northern society. Slavery has served as a vent for fanaticism, communism, and morbid sentimentality, which, without this safety-valve, would have long since resulted in a social explosion.–Preston Brooks

A people separated from their history are easily persuaded.–Karl Marx

God is a Radical [Republican].–Henry Ward Beecher

Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed.–2 Timothy 2:15

The great majority of mankind is satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities.–Machiavelli

The joy of learning is as indispensible in study as breathing is in living.–Simone Weil

If only Longstreet had …–O.Henry

 

[Tidewater]

Wherever you bluebellies go you cause trouble. . . . Yankees always lie. –Clint Eastwood, “Ambush at Cimarron Pass,” 1958.

For every right wing lunatic in a cabin in Idaho, there are 500 left wing lunatics with tenure at state universities. –David Burge

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shall be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. Hosea, 4:6

All radicals are either fools or knaves. –Randolph of Roanoke

The American mainstream media is full to the brim with liars, frauds, partisans, cheats, plagiarists, and those who tolerate, defend, and enable all of them. –John Nolte

. . . we are all well on the way to becoming specialists who, though they may be capable of some slight achievement in their own sector, have a much smaller share in their period’s total body of knowledge than that possessed by their parents and forefathers. –Paul Hermann

The people, as a class, are never properly prepared for the discussion of principles in the abstract, and conscious of this fact, the ambitious are ever on the watch, seizing on popular prejudices. –William Gilmore Simms

Hell is truth seen too late. –Thomas Hobbes.

The opposite of love is not hate, but power. –Andrew Lytle

It is quite possible to write a history in which the facts presented are accurate but the story told is false. It happens all the time. –Clyde Wilson

There is no new thing under the sun. But every sunrise is the same great and glorious miracle as on the first day of creation! –Paul Hermann

If only Longstreet had . . . . –O. Henry

 

[Luvubama]

He "Tied One On"