21 Quotes by Joel Chandler Harris

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.

[...Brer Rabbit] said his prayers over like a train of railroad cars running [...].

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.

Lazy fokes's stummucks don't git tired.

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

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

Jay-bird don't rob his own nes'.

Please don't throw me in dat briar patch!

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.