Lake Wobegon Quotes
The best sayings about Lake Wobegon that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
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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. ~Garrison Keillor
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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.
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We have nearly complete misunderstanding between people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon, and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well. It's when you are trying to convince another person to think the same way that you do that there is friction and trouble between people. But when you feel that the other person is dumber than dirt, too dumb for words - why waste your breath - you get along pretty well. There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.
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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
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Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.
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When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be circumspect, walk on fences, sleep in trees, and have faith that all this woofing is not the last word.
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I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.
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Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
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A boy wrote me once to say that he loved it when the news from Lake Wobegon came on the radio because it meant that his parents stopped arguing. That was an eye-opener for me. You work hard to polish your act and then you find out that it does people good in ways you couldn't predict.
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Before the world was made, when it was only darkness and mist and waters, God was well aware of Lake Wobegon, my family, our house, and He had me all sketched out down to what size my feet would be (big), which bike I would ride (Schwinn), and the five ears of corn I'd eat for supper that night.
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Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.
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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
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In Lake Wobegon, we don't forget mistakes.
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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.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
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Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.
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Top Authors
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Ian Shoales Actor
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Henry Winkler Actor -
I. L. Peretz Author -
Iain Banks Author -
Ian Lawton Author -
Hugh Hopper Bass guitarist -
Holly McPeak Beach Volleyball Player -
Huw Irranca-Davies British Politician -
Hetty Green Businesswoman -
Herb Gardner Cartoonist -
Henry Purcell Composer -
Hugh McCulloch Former United States Secretary of the Treasury -
Herb Lubalin Graphic Designer -
Herodotus Historian -
Howard Cosell Journalist -
Henry Watson Fowler Lexicographer -
Henry Peach Robinson Photographer
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Hiroshi Hamaya Photographer
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Hideki Yukawa Physicist -
Hesiod Poet -
Huma Abedin Political figure -
Hugh Hefner Publisher -
Hildegard of Bingen Saint -
Herman J. Mankiewicz Screenwriter -
Hubert M. Blalock Sociologist -
Ian Bogost Video Game Designer
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