The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.

I'm lonely like Adam and you're evil like Eve.

I don't mind being controversial. Even Jesus wasn't loved in his day.

If you talk in your sleep, don't mention my name. If you walk in your sleep, forget where you came.

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.

Take your troubles to the Chapel, get down on your knees and pray. Your burdens will be lighter, and you'll surely find the way.

I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel.

My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.

People think you're crazy if you talk about things they don't understand.

You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.

I saw three shrimp in the water, two were old and gray. I swam a little closer, and I heard the third one say, good-bye Mama.

I wouldn't call girls a hobby. It's a pastime.

My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something.

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Somebody does somethin' stupid, that's human. They don't stop when they see it's wrong, that's a fool.

We're the perfect combination. Colonel's an old carny, and me, I'm off the wall.