Hilarious Hillbilly Quotes & Sayings

While at Colonel Niel's marquee I saw a detail of soldiers bring out a man by the name of Rowland, whom they were going to shoot to death with musketry, by order of a court-martial, for desertion. He was being hauled to the place of execution in a wagon, sitting on an old gun box, which was to be his coffin. When they got to the grave, which had been dug the day before, the water had risen in it, and a soldier was baling it out. Rowland spoke up and said, 'Please hand me a drink of that water, as I want to drink out of my own grave so the boys will talk about it when I am dead, and remember Rowland. — Sam R. Watkins

Colonel Bulder, in full military uniform, on horseback, galloping first to one place and then to another, and backing his horse among the people, and prancing, and curvetting, and shouting in a most alarming manner, and making himself very hoarse in the voice, and very red in the face, without any assignable cause or reason whatever. — Charles Dickens

I'm a tiger when I want love, but I'm a snake if we disagree. — Jethro Tull

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness. — Robert Casey

If you know what's right, then you'll do the right thing. If you don't know what's right, then who's to say what you'll do! — Emily Morris