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WHO WAS HARRY OLIVER?
A Mini-Bio
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A HARRY OLIVER MINI BIO
HARRY OLIVER QUOTES
Here are some Harry Oliver quotations.
- Camp Note: Put popcorn in your flapjack batter watch them flop over by themselves.
- "We cigarette and pipe smoking folks should give a thought to how we must smell to a SKUNK."
- The auto hasn't completely replaced the horse. You haven't yet seen a bronze statue of a man sitting under a steering wheel.
- Kickin' never gets you nowhere, 'less'n you're a mule.
- Nobody ever drowned himself in sweat.
- The only fine thing I know that we have done for the Indian is to call a few fine days in early fall INDIAN SUMMER.
- A woman's tears are the greatest waterpower known to man.
- Remember you can't fall out of bed if you sleep on the floor.
- If you fold this paper again, long ways, it makes it just right for killing cockroaches or vinegaroons.
- The only thing I know for sure about the future is that there will be a lot of it, so let's have all the laughs we can today.
- You don't know happiness till you find yourself doing things well just for your own approval.
- One of the great compensations of old age, is that you can do as you please.
- Said one angry skunk to another: "So do you!"
- People are funny; they spend money they don't have to buy things they don't need to impress folks they don't like.
- She was a woman of few words, but often.
- People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.
- Why do people say it's a man's world, when statistics prove women live longer than men—especially widows.
- I believe that today is the best day since yesterday and that tomorrow will be a better one.
- Only a fool argues with a skunk, a mule, or a cook.
- If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then stop, after all there's no use being silly about it.
- If you are too busy to laugh you're too busy.
- If you place a jar lid in the bottom of your double boiler, it will rattle when the water is about boiled away, better than stinking up the shanty.
- I find truth is hard to sell, while lies sell like hot cakes.
- It's no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.
- A man's character can't be judged by the way he acts on Sunday.
- Ever notice how dogs win friends and influence people without reading books about it?
- As long as you laugh at your troubles you may be sure that you will never run out of something to laugh at.
- If you want to die in bed . . . try smoking.
- Forget your troubles; there are more coming.
- Trust everybody but cut the cards.
- The trouble with being a turtle is you can't run away from home.
- Ever notice that you never yawn when you are asleep?
- He is an exceedingly rare person who has keen enough vision to see himself as others see him.
- Saving is a way of spending money without getting any fun out of it.
- OMEN A sign that something will happen if nothing happens.
- Smile and the rest of your face you only paid one lousy thin dime for this paper.
- The worst trouble with the future is that it seems to get here quicker than it used to.
- Is life worth living? That depends on the liver.
- Fishing was invented by a fellow whose wife wouldn't let him drink at home.
- Mountain climbers rope themselves together because there is safety in numbers also it keeps the sensible ones from going home.
- There is nothing so fatal to character as half-finished tasks.
- If a little knowledge is dangerous where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
- My memory is the thing I forget with.
- What a feller makes up is sometimes better than what really is.
- International strategy: How can the Russians figure what we are going to do when we obviously don't know ourselves?
- It takes about twenty years of hard work to succeed and you have to work hard for about fifty years if you fail.
- Never tell the truth when you can garnish it a little bit and make it much more interesting.
- Any animal is a substitution for friends you don't have.
- Some day we hope to be wise enough to get the vitamins that wild animals get by eating what they like.
- Did you ever notice the longer the bar the fewer the free drinks
- I find when I tell lies, folks don't care just so's I'm sincere.
- "Gee" I wish I could remember what it was I wanted to forget.
- The wildflowers at Ft. Oliver were so thick this spring you could hardly see the discarded beer cans.
- A miner here tied a stick of dynamite around his neck and lit the fuse. Relatives and friends say they can't imagine why he did this. Of course this is only a theory, but he may have been tired of living.
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