Corny Collins Show

Famous quotes containing the words corny, collins and/or show:

    “I’m as corny as Kansas in August.”
    —Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960)

    “I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair.”
    —Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)

    “There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits the evidences of large property, as if after all it needed apology. But the Englishman has pure pride in his wealth, and esteems it a final certificate. A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls: if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses?”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)