Minnie Pearl

“How-w-w-DEE-E-E-E! I'm jest so proud to be here!”

“Take the back roads instead of the highways.”

“Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.”

“Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic. You don't mind going through a little bush to get there!”

“Laughter is the best medicine... But if you're laughing for no reason, you may need medicine.”

“The only way to get a man to do something is to suggest he's too old to do it.”

“I was what they call a 'destitute gentlewoman'.”

“Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds and dearer than fine opals.”

“You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.”

“A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.”

“There's an old Southern saying that says, 'It's a poor frog that don't praise his own pond.'”

“There's nothing in this world that a little country music and a good laugh can't fix.”

“Honey, you can't be everything to everybody. You've just got to be something to somebody.”

“Watchin' the sun go down is a beautiful thing. It's like God is paintin' a picture for us every evenin'.”