James Lee Burke

Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#insanity #louisiana #humor

God bless the Reference Librarians ↗

— James Lee Burke

#librarians

Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#money

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#born #country #decry #ever #history

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#growing-older #passage-of-time #tempus-fugit #age

I'm over the hill for come-on lines. On a quiet day, I can hear my liver rotting. For exercise, I fall down. ~ Clete ↗

— James Lee Burke

#humor #pick-up-lines #age

Some people say you pick up the Dirty Boogie where you left it off. Others say you pick it up where you would have been had you never gotten off it. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#life

We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#inspirational

My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and brings little wisdom to any of us. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#age

There's no substitute for loyalty. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#inspirational