110+ Kinky Friedman Quotes On Education, Friendship And Freedom

Kinky Friedman is an American musician, songwriter, novelist, humorist, and political activist. He is best known for his country-style satirical songs, which often contain political and social commentary. He is also known for his activism on behalf of animal rights and other causes, as well as his candidacy for Governor of Texas in 2006. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Kinky Friedman on education, love, friendship.

Top 10 Kinky Friedman Quotes

1. I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.
2. Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.
3. Poly means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.
4. Whether your destination is heaven or hell, you always have to change planes in Dallas.
5. I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to our pets.
6. I've got a head of hair better than Rick Perry; it's just not in a place I can show you.
7. I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.
8. There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979
9. Friday night was the night most people thought they were supposed to have fun. Trouble was most people didn't know what fun was or how to have it, so things usually ended up pretty ugly.
10. If you're paranoid long enough, sooner or later you're gonna be right.

Kinky Friedman Image Quotes

Poly means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites. — Kinky Friedman

Kinky Friedman Short Quotes

• Golf is the only opportunity that middle-aged WASPs have to dress up like a pimp.
• Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive.
• May the God of your choice bless you.
• I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear.
• I believe that Willy Nelson is the hillbilly Dalai Lama.
• You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.
• One thing we are sure of is there's no one like Nelson Mandela out there. That's too bad for us.
• If you elect me the first Jewish justice of the peace, I'll reduce the speed limits to 54.95!
• Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody got tired of her.
• What has six balls and screws Texans? The Texas Lottery.

Kinky Friedman Quotes About Education

This system is really broken. No Child Left Behind has really failed and the only way to solve education is to leave one governor behind. — Kinky Friedman

The good teachers are bailing out. Education is very important.... This should be the centerpiece on the table of Texas. — Kinky Friedman

Always beware of people offering you one-time money. That only works in an election year. How are you going to permanently pay for education? — Kinky Friedman

The reason educational spending in Texas is so low is because you don't have a state tax there, and that's why Texas is big growth because you don't tax people to death. — Kinky Friedman

Kinky Friedman Quotes About Love

I've been in true love many times. I just try to avoid it as much as possible. For if there's one thing I know about true love, it is that sooner or later, it results in a hostage situation. — Kinky Friedman

If you don't love Jesus-go to hell! — Kinky Friedman

Finding a cat--or having a cat find you--can change your world as much as marriage, divorce, love, death, or even winning the lottery can, and sometimes more. — Kinky Friedman

I'm not afraid to live. I'm not afraid to fail. I'm not afraid to succeed. I'm not afraid to fall in love. I'm not afraid to be alone. I'm just afraid I might have to stop talking about myself for five minutes. — Kinky Friedman

The main health hazard in the world today is people who don't love themselves. — Kinky Friedman

True love usually results in a hostage situation. — Kinky Friedman

People may surprise you with unexpected kindness. Dogs have a depth of loyalty that often we seem unworthy of. But the love of a cat is a blessing, a privilege in this world. — Kinky Friedman

You've got to find what you love and let it kill you. I don't think any of us should ever forget that. — Kinky Friedman

I'm also for gay marriage, because I say they have every right to be just as miserable as the rest of us. Love is bigger than government. And Texas, by the way, has a very progressive law about gay couples adopting kids. We just won't let them get married. So that's not common sense. — Kinky Friedman

Kinky Friedman Quotes About World

The only thing that really differentiates Texas from any other place in the world is the proclivity of its people to urinate outdoors and to attach a certain amount of importance to this popular pastime. — Kinky Friedman

I'm well aware that the Nelson Mandelas and the Winston Churchills of the world happened by accident. They usually come out of nowhere. — Kinky Friedman

It wasn't a healthy attitude, but it wasn't really a healthy world. — Kinky Friedman

You have to work at it if you want to be a good smoker. Especially today with all the non-smoking world constantly harassing you. — Kinky Friedman

God created whiskey to keep the Irish from taking over the world. — Kinky Friedman

Kinky Friedman Quotes About Life

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing. — Kinky Friedman

A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life. — Kinky Friedman

All my adult life I've been in the practice of giving advice to people who are happier than I am. — Kinky Friedman

I'm not pro-life, and I'm not pro-choice. I'm pro-football. — Kinky Friedman

We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters. — Kinky Friedman

Kinky Friedman Famous Quotes And Sayings

Poly means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites. — Kinky Friedman

But the most dangerous thing in the world in the world is to run the risk of waking up one morning and realizing suddenly that all this time you've been living without really and truly living and by then it's too late. When you wake up to that kind of realization, it's too late for wishes and regrets. It's even too late to dream. — Kinky Friedman

I don't think where people come from is that important. It doesn't matter if you come from reality TV. The question is whether you can inspire people. — Kinky Friedman

That's the government. Having been a politician and a musician, I can tell you which one is a higher calling. If musicians ran the country, it would be a much different place. We wouldn't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'd work late. — Kinky Friedman

If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong. — Kinky Friedman

Jerry Jones and Chris Christie are probably the most important latent homosexual relationship since Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. — Kinky Friedman

My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You're Lying not only tells the truth about the travel-writing racket, it gets to the heart of some of the travel industry's best-kept secrets. — Kinky Friedman

Sleep came slower than a frigid woman. — Kinky Friedman

If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus. — Kinky Friedman

This is called "spiritual lifting." It's not heavy lifting. The governor of Texas should not be confused with Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's a powerful position. The governor of Texas can't do any heavy lifting really. It's not that powerful a position. — Kinky Friedman

I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school. — Kinky Friedman

My plan is to bring back like the Bracero Program from 1944 that ran for 20 years where the Mexican government vets these people. I mean, they pay for it, and they get green cards, and they're actually legitimate. And then seal the border. — Kinky Friedman

I am not anti-death penalty, but I'm damned sure anti-the-wrong-guy-getting-executed. — Kinky Friedman

Most people, of course, spend their lives caring about the wrong things. The worry about South Africa or Nicaragua. They spend so much time finding themselves that they lose their taxicabs. They don't see that what kind of napkin you get at a delicatessen is a matter of much significance in the world today. That's why they don't get linen. — Kinky Friedman

The Ten Commandments being taken out of the public schools. I want them back. — Kinky Friedman

Remember, I'm not running against Rick Perry; I'm running against apathy. — Kinky Friedman

Like most of us, I determined that I'd rather be a large part of the problem than a small part of the solution. — Kinky Friedman

I don't think I have even achieved fame. Of course, Hemingway says that fame is death's little sister. — Kinky Friedman

Cuban cigars is a big expense because I do smoke a lot of them, eight to 12 a day, so that would be almost as bad as a cocaine habit, a hundred bucks a day. — Kinky Friedman

Now I have a cat. Well, that's not quite accurate. A cat and I have each other. — Kinky Friedman

No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror. — Kinky Friedman

In six days the Lord created the heavens and the earth and all the wonders therein. There are some of us who feel that He might have taken just a little more time. — Kinky Friedman

I want to be governor [of Texas] because I need the closet space. — Kinky Friedman

There will be a whole new spirit blowing through Texas. There will be a smile on everybody's face and a chill up the spine of every politician. — Kinky Friedman

I don't believe in carrying a weapon. If somebody wants to shoot me, he'll have to bring his own gun. — Kinky Friedman

The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty. — Kinky Friedman

I believe that voices like Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, Ralph Nader should be heard. They don't have to be president. Give 'em a chance. — Kinky Friedman

If you ain't Texan, I ain't got time for you. — Kinky Friedman

I'm ready for anything. That's probably why it never happens. — Kinky Friedman

I'm not for the parties. I'm for Texas. — Kinky Friedman

The distance between the limousine and the gutter is a short one. — Kinky Friedman

Always respect your superiors, if you have any. — Kinky Friedman

Well, I hate to be the one to take the flyswatter to Tinker Bell, but... — Kinky Friedman

If you're going to be an artist, you need to be an original. — Kinky Friedman

And I'll tell you another thing, you won't find any candidate that supports prayer in school and gay marriage. For that reason alone, people should vote for an independent-thinking person. — Kinky Friedman

I want to fight the wussification of the State of Texas. I want to rise and shine and bring back the glory. — Kinky Friedman

They probably would've taken Jesus if he hadn't been nailed down. — Kinky Friedman

I don't see how the people who created the problem can fix it. Texas is worth fighting for, and the best way to fight is to get the politicians out of politics. — Kinky Friedman

If you gotta kill two birds, might as well get stoned. — Kinky Friedman

On the whole I prefer cats to women because cats seldom if ever use the word 'relationship'. — Kinky Friedman

When you record something, you never know who's going to hear it. — Kinky Friedman

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get. — Kinky Friedman

When a stray animal crosses your path, it may be as close to God as you're going to get in this lifetime. — Kinky Friedman

Yes, I'm a Judeo-Christian. Jesus and Moses are in my heart. And both of them were independents, by the way. — Kinky Friedman

People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it. — Kinky Friedman

Simón Bolívar is the only person in history to be exiled from a country named after him. — Kinky Friedman

The people I respect all died broke and despairing. They didn't leave a lot of hammered iron behind them like Donald Trump has done. — Kinky Friedman

The child-teacher relationship is crucial. — Kinky Friedman

He looked a shade too healthy and nobody likes that. Particularly in New York. — Kinky Friedman

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship — Kinky Friedman

Inspiration thing is important, to teach the kids that JFK is not an airport, RFK's not a stadium, Martin Luther King ain't a street — Kinky Friedman

We're going to make that Lone Star shine again. — Kinky Friedman

I've achieved many of my dreams, and I want to see that some others get a chance to, especially younger Texans. — Kinky Friedman

Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test. — Kinky Friedman

I was so high, I needed a stepladder to scratch my own ass. — Kinky Friedman

Remember, the Legislature is the joke, not our campaign. — Kinky Friedman

Sometimes performing someone else's song is more difficult than writing your own. — Kinky Friedman

My goal as a young man, to be fat, famous and financially fixed by 50. — Kinky Friedman

There are more inspirational people in music than there are in politics. — Kinky Friedman

You never marry the person you first see 'Casablanca' with. — Kinky Friedman

If Jesus Christ had run as an independent, Rick Perry would have beat him. — Kinky Friedman

If you're lookin' for a helpin' hand, try the one at the end of your arm. — Kinky Friedman

I see an issue I like, and I support it. — Kinky Friedman

Man's ability to delude himself is infinite. — Kinky Friedman

Happiness is a moving target. — Kinky Friedman

I'd felt that a man without a woman was like a neck without a pain. — Kinky Friedman

My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent. — Kinky Friedman

I want to see a Jew in the White house. — Kinky Friedman

I don't feel bad about losing. — Kinky Friedman

Life Lessons by Kinky Friedman

1. Kinky Friedman's work demonstrates the importance of staying true to yourself and your beliefs, no matter what other people think.
2. He also shows us the power of humor and satire in making a point and getting people to think differently.
3. Finally, his music serves as a reminder that it's okay to take risks and challenge the status quo, even if it means going against the grain.