Best 7 quotes of Joel Chandler Harris on MyQuotes

Hongry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.

Lazy fokes's stummucks don't git tired.

Once upon a time a Georgian printed a couple of books that attracted notice, but immediately it turned out that he was little more than an amanuensis for the local blacks--that his works were really the products, not of white Georgia, but of black Georgia. Writing afterward as a white man, he swiftly subsided into the fifth rank.

People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago.

Please don't throw me in dat briar patch!

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.