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March is the month God created to show people who don't drink what a hangover is like.

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards, and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

We have nearly complete misunderstanding between people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon, and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well. It's when you are trying to convince another person to think the same way that you do that there is friction and trouble between people. But when you feel that the other person is dumber than dirt, too dumb for words - why waste your breath - you get along pretty well. There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.

Bravery and adventure! That's the ticket! Don't sit and gather moss. Get up, get out, do what you dream of doing, and if it doesn't work, it doesn't work, and you don't need to made that particular mistake again, but at least you won't get old wondering what if you had.

Life is continuous. Life never stops. We come to the really great questions and before we can answer them, life has moved on to something else.

As for kissing on the first date, you should never date someone whom you would not wish to kiss immediately.

Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either

TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world than if you drank gin out of a bottle

One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who dont understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit.

Eating a little was like vomiting a little, just as bad as a lot.

Powdermilk biscuits: Heavens, theyre tasty and expeditious! Theyre made from whole wheat, to give shy persons the strength to get up and do what needs to be done

To your left is the marina where several senior cabinet officials keep luxury _x000D_yachts for weekend cruises on the Potomac. Some of these ships are up to 100 _x000D_feet in length; the Presidential yacht is over 200 feet in length, and can _x000D_remain submerged for up to 3 weeks.

Secret of life is to go through something harrowing that doesnt kill you...and to love one woman for the rest of your life.

Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority.

Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to your friends, which you may not have been back when you were clever.

America of the future will be all malls connected by interstates. All because your parents no longer can their own tomatoes.

Ralph Stanley is like an uncle to us and now that all my uncles are gone, Ralph's singing is even more precious. This album of classic folk songs is one of his best.

All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like this fair, and make it something larger than life.

Sex is not a mechanical act that fails for lack of technique, and it is not a performance by the male for the audience of the female; it is a continuum of attraction that extends from the simplest conversation and the most innocent touching through the act of coitus.

The relationship between truth and a newspaper is like the relationship between the color green and the number seven. Occasionally you will see the number seven written in green, but you learn not to expect this.

Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.

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