Watch out w’en you’er gittin all you want. Fattenin’ hogs ain’t in luck.
Joel Chandler Harris (1848–1908) American writer
“Plantation Proverbs,” Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings (1880).
Quotations by:
Harris, Joel Chandler
“I don’t keer w’at you do wid me, Brer Fox,” sezee, “so you don’t fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas’ me, Brer Fox” sezee, “but don’t fling me in dat brier-patch,” sezee.
Joel Chandler Harris (1848–1908) American writer
Legends of the Old Plantation, “How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox” (1886)
Youk’n hide de fier, but w’at you gwine do wid de smoke?
Joel Chandler Harris (1848–1908) American writer
Plantation Proverbs
You can’t run away from trouble. There ain’t no place that far.
Joel Chandler Harris (1848–1908) American writer
Uncle Remus
May actually be from the movie Song of the South (1946), based on Harris' tales.