“Texas Friendly Spoken Here”
"Texas Friendly Spoken Here" is a tourist slogan from 1988. It's almost unknown outside of Texas. 6 September 1989, New York Times, "Promoting Texas: Ribs to Chili" by Anne…
“Texas fries everything but ice cream” (Edna Ferber)
"Texas fries everything but ice cream" is a quotation in Edna Ferber's 1963 autobiography A Kind of Magic. Ferber's Texas work is best represented in the film Giant (1956), with…
“Texas has 12 seasons” (joke)
Texas is sometimes given more than four seasons. One extra season is called "fake fall" or "false fall" or "faux fall," sometimes called "fauxl." "Faux…
“Texas has a lot of electrical votes” (Yogi Berra?)
Baseball great Yogi Berra gets credit for many errors of the English language -- unfortunately, this includes credit for many that he never said. A book in 1989 reports that Berra (then a coach for…
“Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may”
Sam Houston (1793=1863), said this from the floor of the U.S. Senate in June 1850: "I will say, without vaunting, that Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from whatever…
“Texas is a blend of valor and swagger” (Carl Sandburg)
Historian/poet Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) is sometimes given credit for saying: "Texas is a blend of valor and swagger." Texas author Boyce House (1896-1961) is best known for his short,…
“Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession.” (John Steinbeck)
John Steinbeck traveled across America in 1960 with his dog Charley; he wrote about it in his book, Travels with Charley: In Search of America (1962). Steinbeck didn't much care for Texas, but…
“Texas Is Calling, Your Opportunity Awaits”
Texas Governor Rick Perry (a Republican) promoted businesses to come to his state in 2013 by taking his message to blue states (Democratic), where taxes were high. Television advertising buys of $1…
“Texas is like hot yoga without the yoga”
"Hot yoga" is when yoga is performed under hot and humid conditions. Texas is hot, and many people have said that any yoga performed outdoors in Texas is hot yoga. "#Texas is like…
“Texas is neither southern nor western. Texas is Texas.” (William Blakley)
William Blakley (1898-1976) was a Texas senator for two incomplete terms, the first in 1957 and the second in 1961. He is remembered today for the quotation: "Texas is neither southern nor…
“Texas is paradise for men and dogs, but hell for women and horses”
Describing American land as "paradise for men and dogs, but hell for women and horses" goes back to the early nineteenth century and has been applied to Illinois, Texas, Georgia, Idaho,…
“Texas is so big that the people in Brownsville call the people in Dallas ‘Yankees.’”
"Texas is so big that the people in Brownsville call the Dallas people Yankees and citizens of El Paso sneer at the citizens of Texarkana as being big snobs from the effete East." This…
“Texas is the garden spot of the world” (Davy Crockett)
"I must say as to what I have seen of Texas it is the garden spot of the world" wrote Davy Crockett to his son and daughter on January 9, 1836 -- just before Crockett's death at the…
“Texas occupies all of the North American continent except Canada, Mexico and the rest of the U.S.”
Texas author Boyce House (1896-1961) is best known for his short, best-selling Texas humor books published during World War II, providing a chuckle to Texans and non-Texans everywhere. House also…
“Texas potholes will change your radio station and unlock your doors”
Many places have car-changing potholes. "Chattanooga potholes will change your radio station , lock your doors , end the transmission and pop holes in 3/4 tires" was posted on Twitter by…
“Texas Stadium has a hole in the roof so God can watch his favorite team” (D. D. Lewis)
Texas Stadium has a famous hole in the roof. Dallas Cowboys linebacker D. D. Lewis joked in 1982 that it was because God wants to watch his favorite team. Wikipedia: Texas StadiumTexas Stadium is…
“Texas Stories Told Here…Some True”
"Texas Stories Told Here...Some True" has appeared on items for purchase in Texas gift shops. See also "No Brag, Just Fact." T Shirts N Texas - Texas Signs N SayinsTexas…
“Texas tall talk is not a lie; it is an expression of a larger truth.” (Paul Crume)
Paul Crume (1912-1975) was a columnist for the Dallas Morning News, where he wrote the front-page "Big D" column of news tidbits. In his book A Texan at Bay (1961), he wrote:…
“Texas to the Bone” (Saltgrass Steak House)
"Texas to the Bone" is the slogan (trademarked from 1998) of the Saltgrass Steak House restaurant chain. Saltgrass began in Houston in 1952, the same year that the Houston Livestock Show…
“Texas weather and Texas women, pretty much the same thing”
Texas weather can be hot in the day and then get very cold at night, especially in the spring or the fall. Texas weather can also be hot or cold from one day to the next. "Texas women and…