Mayberry Quotes

• One: Don't play leapfrog with elephants. Two: Don't pet a tiger unless his tail is wagging. Three: Never, ever, mess with the Ladies Auxiliary. -Mayberry Rules for a Long, Happy Life

  Lauren Myracle

  Happy Life, Play, Elephants

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• When a man carries a gun all the time, the respect he thinks he's getting might really be fear. So I don't carry a gun because I don't want the people of Mayberry to fear a gun. I'd rather they respect me.

  Andy Griffith

  Respect, Fear, Gun

  "Fictional character: Andy Taylor". TV Series "The Andy Griffith Show", 1960-1968.

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• People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet as they do for their own home towns.

  Tom Shales

  Home, Simple, People

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• You can't TV surf without coming across an Andy of Mayberry episode where you've just got to watch Don as Barney. And that's why I put Don in several of my movies.

  Tim Conway

  Surfing, Watches, Tvs

  Interview with Claudia Perry, www.aislesay.com.

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• I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.

  Andy Griffith

  Play, Episodes, Prove

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing gets my hackles up like being told I can't do something.

  Lauren Mayberry

  I Can

  "Keeping it Unreal: In the Studio with Chvrches". Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. June 22, 2015.

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• I love Mayberry! The people here are wonderful! When I'm at the grocery store people come up and hug me. Friends pick me up and take me for rides on the Blue Ridge Parkway and I always love that.

  Betty Lynn

  Blue, People, Pick Me Up

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• Life's too short to be shoehorned into a box that isn't for you.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Too Short, Boxes, Life's Too Short

  "Keeping it Unreal: In the Studio with Chvrches". Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. June 22, 2015.

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• I'd been visiting Mount Airy every year for Mayberry Days. Twice when I was doing personal appearances, one in Alabama and once for Mayberry Days, my house in Los Angeles was robbed. I decided I didn't want to live there anymore, so I moved to Mount Airy, and I am so glad I did!

  Betty Lynn

  Years, House, Alabama

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• In 1986, when they made the TV movie, Return to Mayberry, Barney and Thelma Lou did get married!

  Betty Lynn

  Return, Tvs, Married

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• It`s the prettiest place on the planet. My childhood was like a dream. It`s like the last Mayberry.

  Greg Behrendt

  Dream, Childhood, Lasts

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• There is no precedent in any modern White House for what is going on in this one: a complete lack of a policy apparatus. What you’ve got is everything - and I mean everything - being run by the political arm. It’s the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis.

  John DiIulio

  Running, Mean, White

  "Bush’s Burgeoning Body Count" by Nick Turse, www.motherjones.com. November 28, 2005.

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