Top 29 Matlock Quotes
#1. Back in the old days, a man could just get sick and die. Now they have to wage a battle. So my Uncle Bert is waging a courageous battle, which I've seen, because I go and visit him. And this is the battle: he's lying in the hospital bed, with a thing in his arm, watching Matlock on the TV.
Norm MacDonald
#2. I sang 'A Closer Walk with Thee' along with blues singer Brownie McGhee, ... Then there was a show where Carol Houston, an actress on 'Matlock' sang 'It Is Well With My Soul' accompanied by a choir. Boy, that was powerful.
Andy Griffith
#3. I'm tired of Glen Matlock saying he was the songwriter for the Sex Pistols. I co-wrote as many songs ... but I don't go shouting about it.
Steve Jones
#4. Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses.
Ken Venturi
#5. I played a killer twice. Once on 'Matlock,' on Andy Griffith's show, I got to play the killer.
Dick Van Dyke
#6. If you wish to survive, you have to win the battle.
B. Traven
#7. Regardless of one's background - race, culture or gender, education is a great equalizer.
Joe Matlock
#8. Of all the many memoirs by former Soviet officials, Palazchenko's is among the best written and also the most objective. Even his descriptions of U.S. policy are more accurate and judicious than those of some American scholars.
Jack F. Matlock Jr.
#10. What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness,
Anger, discontent and drooping hopes?
Degenerate sons and daughters,
Life is too strong for you
It takes life to love Life.
Edgar Lee Masters
#11. Smart is informed reasoning, therefore anyone is smart if they research before reasoning.
Joe Matlock
#12. It would be impossible to transact business of any magnitude today if cash payments were required. We see the truth of this when we consider that more than 90% of all commercial transactions are estimated to be carried on today by the medium of commercial paper or negotiable instruments.
James Matlock Ogden
#13. This morning I am wonderfully peaceful. Just like a storm that has spent itself.
Virginia Woolf
#14. Pavel Palazchenko has given us a well-written, inside account of Gorbachev's and Shevardnadze's diplomacy. Remarkably objective, it is full of insights, makes fascinating reading, and will also be a prime source for scholars long into the future.
Jack F. Matlock Jr.
#15. The gunslinger had no idea what tooter-fish was, but he knew a popkin when he saw it.
Stephen King
#16. I was used, fucked, broken, toyed with and violated from the age of six.
James Rhodes
#17. I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.
Elon Musk
#18. To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.
Arthur Schnitzler
#19. You don't want to look too chic at a Washington party or people will think you don't have a job worth losing.
Judith Martin
#20. Foolishness is the human condition, and exactly what God handles best.
Curtiss Ann Matlock
#22. The odd thing about war, it shows who you are, not who you think you are ... most likely, you won't like the truth.
Joe Matlock
#23. Utterly absorbing ... If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take you there.
Jack F. Matlock Jr.
#27. I heard a story the other night about an editor who visited the Iowa Workshop and, when asked what sorts of books she published, replied, "Classic books." One of the students asked her, "You mean like Kafka?" Apparently she said, "Oh, I don't think I would publish Kafka."
Matthew Specktor
#28. When a self-evident truth is presented, don't surprised when self-centeredness fights back...
Joe Matlock
#29. We must abandon the goals of perfect obedience and untainted innocence and begin to equip our children to see their place in God's family, their need for his grace, and their opportunity to embrace his mission.
Mark Matlock
