Idiot Quote by Rodney Dangerfield

I'm not saying she was stupid, but I asked her how to spell Mississippi and she said 'the river or the state?'

— Anonymous

The Mississippi is not the only river. There's the Tallahatchie and the Big Black. People have been put in the river year after year,…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Not Trying to call anyone dumb but, I asked a woman to spell Mississipi. And she asked Which one the river or the state.…

— Author Name

The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer…

— T. S. Eliot

The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as…

— Mark Twain

With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable…

— William Alexander Percy

“Mississippi used to be able to do whatever it wanted to do, until the United States found out about it. And now that Mississippi…

— John Pritchard

“One who knows the Mississippi will promptly aver—not aloud, but to himself—that ten thousand River Commissions, with the mines of the world at their…

— Mark Twain

The Mississippi River she's a goin' dry.

— Hank Williams Jr

The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise...

— Mark Twain

Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.

— Buddy Guy

“about Minnesota he tells me all about it—how it became a state just over seventy years ago and is now the twelfth largest in…

— Christina Baker Kline