The Andy Griffith Show (TV Series)

A Feud Is a Feud (1960)

Andy Griffith: Andy Taylor

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Quotes 

• Andy Taylor : Goodbye, goodbye. Partin' is such sweet sorrow that I would say goodbye 'til it be the morrow.

  Opie Taylor : What's *that* mean?

  Andy Taylor : Well, that means I'd love to set and jaw with ya awhile longer, but I got to be a-movin' on.

• Andy Taylor : Now, you know how folks in these parts feel about their feudin'. Now what if it was to get out that we had a eighty-seven-year-old feud a-goin' on here with nary a killin' to show for it? Why, we'd be the laughingstock of the state.

• Opie Taylor : What's a soliloquy?

  Andy Taylor : Well, a soliloquy is where you kind of look away off and kinda talk to yourself.

  Opie Taylor : Oh.

  Andy Taylor : They used to do that a whole lot back then. You do it today and somebody will take you away.

• Andy Taylor : Maybe your reason for feudin' with the Carters just don't seem strong enough to young Josh.

  Jedediah Wakefield : No, it ain't that.

  Andy Taylor : How do you know it ain't?

  Jedediah Wakefield : 'Cause he don't know the reason.

  Andy Taylor : He don't? You mean you ain't never told him?

  Jedediah Wakefield : Nope.

  Andy Taylor : Why? How come?

  Jedediah Wakefield : 'Cause *I* don't know the reason.

  Andy Taylor : You mean your Pa never did tell you?

  Jedediah Wakefield : Nope.

  Andy Taylor : Well, why?

  Jedediah Wakefield : Well, could be 'cause he didn't know the reason neither.

  Andy Taylor : Who was the last Wakefield that *did* know the reason?

  Jedediah Wakefield : It must have been his grandpa.

  Andy Taylor : Well, then, how come he didn't pass along the reason?

  Jedediah Wakefield : Well, it could be by the time his young'un got old enough to join the feudin' that my great grandpa just clear had forgotten.

• Andy Taylor : Now, I looked up the records, the old sheriff's records and hospital records and such as that for the past 87 years and do you know what?

  Jedediah Wakefield : What?

  Andy Taylor : There ain't never been nary a Wakefield or Carter that was so much as even hit.

  Jedediah Wakefield : Well, it ain't because we wasn't tryin'!

  Mr. Carter : Dang Wakefields keep movin' around!

• Andy Taylor : [explaining Romeo and Juliet to Opie]  And Juliet said, "Romeo, Romeo, where art thou Romeo?" And Romeo said, "Well, I'm right 'tchere!"

• Josh Wakefield : Sheriff, it don't matter what her name is, Wakefield or Carter. We're both more'n 18. It's your bound and duty to marry us if we ask you to.

  Andy Taylor : Well, now. The boy's got hisself a point.

  [Mr. Wakefield and Mr. Carter point their shotguns at Andy] 

  Andy Taylor : But y'all have got better points.

• Andy Taylor : It just seems to me if I was going to take a shot at a fella, it'd pass my mind to ask what for.

  Jedediah Wakefield : I'll be danged if I know where you young folks get all them newfangled ideas.

• Mr. Carter : 'Course I know the reason I'm shootin' at him!

  Andy Taylor : Well, how come?

  Mr. Carter : 'Cause he's a Wakefield!

  Andy Taylor : What does that mean to you?

  Mr. Carter : It means I gotta shoot at him.

  Andy Taylor : Well, why do you have to shoot at him?

  Mr. Carter : 'Cause he's a Wakefield!

• Andy Taylor : Ready? One... Fellas, you're supposed to walk when I start countin'.

  Mr. Carter : Well, a fella's legs gets mighty heavy.

  Jedediah Wakefield : Yeah, everybody knows a fella gets our age, the first thing that goes is his legs.

  Andy Taylor : Well, it's just a short walk and it's the last time you'll be a-usin' them.