Quotes of the day- Garrison Keillor:
Gary Edward "Garrison"
Keillor (born August 7, 1942) is an American author, storyteller,
humorist, and radio personality. He is known as host of the Minnesota
Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion. (Click
here for full article.)
A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table... There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.
A marriage, to be happy, needs an exterior threat. New York provides that threat.
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
Ambition can take you far, but who are you when you get there?
Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.
Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either.
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
Democracy is fine by me, but sometimes I'm not sure about you.
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Denmark is no vacation paradise. It is cold and rainy and dark except for June and July, when it's extremely expensive.
Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.
God is a great humorist. It's just that he has a slow audience to work with.
God writes a lot of comedy. The trouble is, He's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world- like grace- and shines on everyone.
I believe in comedy as a humane art and as a profound craft, despite the fact it is considered by most academics as a sort of bastard stepchild of literature, to be kept in the basement and fed cold cereal.
I favor marriage between people whose body parts are not similar. I'm sorry, but same-sex marriage seems timid, an attempt to save on wardrobe and accessories.
I think the most un-American thing you can say is, “You can't say that.”
I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.
If life is a journey, then your 60s are the homeward leg when you're hung up in an airport and thinking bad thoughts about your travel agent.
If tofu adds years to your life, they probably wouldn't be the best years.
If you depend on the news for your worldview, friends, you're in a sad place.
If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?
If you're going to follow the herd, you'd better watch your step.
In romance, as in life, you only learn when you're losing. When you're winning, you just sit there and grin like an idiot.
In time, one wearies of foolishness, but not soon enough.
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning, their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
It's better to be burnished with use than rusty with principle.
Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.
March is the month God created to show people who don't drink what a hangover is like.
Marriage is like a feast where the appetizers are better than the main course and there is no dessert.
May your soul be forever tormented by fire and your bones be dug up by dogs and dragged through the streets of Minneapolis.
My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time.
Nature doesn't care about your golden years; it's aiming for turnover.
Never insult a writer. You may find yourself immortalized in ways you may not appreciate.
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.
One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned- lock, stock and roulette wheel- by Lutheran Brotherhood, and must negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who don't understand why anyone would pay more than $120 for a suit.
People in cars cause accidents and accidents in cars cause people.
Pumpkin pie is the epitome of mediocrity. The best pumpkin pie you ever ate isn't that much better than the worst.
Republicans might be heathens and out to destroy all that we hold dear, but that doesn't mean we need to take them seriously. Or be bitter or vituperative just because they are swine. I think one can still have friends who are Republicans.
Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.
Some days you need to look reality in the eye, and deny it.
The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
The New York Times reads like it was edited by two elderly sociologists, one of whom has been dead for many years.
The reason marriage was invented was so that we wouldn't have to argue with strangers.
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.
There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Vodka is tasteless going down, but it is memorable coming up.
When it comes to finding available men in Minnesota, the odds are good, but the goods are odd.
When the chips are down, the buffalo are empty.
Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis.
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