Jeff Foxworthy Quotes

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

When you're younger, you kind of assume you'll be fine at whatever. Then you get older, and you're either unsuccessful and you wonder why, or you're successful and you wonder why.

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I'm really a paddler on a beach.

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

It's been a funny life for me. Sometimes I feel I haven't done a lot of living.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

I felt that with 'In A Perfect World' I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.

I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented.

I'm just kind of taking whatever life gives me and hoping that I make the right decision.

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

When I was 27, I didn't have a clue what was going on! At that age, to have that much power and to have that much ambition is something.

'Control' had to do with my own life a lot, and that's why that seemed to be a film I could be the director of, because I had an emotional attachment to the whole story. And because of that experience, I feel that I can try other films. I didn't set out to become a director.