~ Quotes ~ Milly: Don't you like girls? Gideon: We ain't never hardly ever seen one. Milly: Well, it wouldn't hurt you to learn some manners, too. Adam: What do I need manners for? I already got me a wife. Caleb: Can't make no vows to a herd of cows. Caleb: There wasn't an F name in the Bible, so they named him Frankincense, because he smelled so sweet. Benjamin Pontipee: [after Dorcas hits him with a snowball] Snowballs with rocks in them! Them poor little dears! Ephraim Pontipee: [to two women on the street] Care for a chaw of tobaccy? Adam: Love is like the measles. You only get it once, and the older you are, the harder you take it. Milly: Somehow it just don't seem fitting for a man to spend his wedding night in a tree. Dorcas: Which of the boys slept in this bed, do you think? Liza: Dorcas Galen! Dorcas: What's the matter? Haven't you ever thought of it? That you're sleeping in one of *their* beds? Milly: Good morning my brothers. If you're looking for your outside clothes they're hanging up drying on the line. I came in before and got them. I couldn't get your inside clothes so I'll take them now. Benjamin Pontipee: Our underwear? Milly: You're winter underwear that you're sleeping in. You might as well hand it over because you're not gonna get your clothes or food or nothing til you get all cleaned up and shaved. Benjamin Pontipee: Where's Adam? We wanna talk to Adam. Milly: He's out plowing, he had his breakfast over a half an hour ago. I got hot muffins waiting, crisp bacon, steak, fryer potatoes, fresh ground coffee. Now do I get that winter underwear or do I have to come in there and take it off of you? Benjamin Pontipee: Don't listen to her. She wouldn't dare. Milly: Oh wouldn't I? Mrs. Fred Bixby: [to Adam] Let me tell you something, no woman is gonna go to bear country with you to cook and wash and slave for seven slumachy back woodsmen. Milly: [after the barn fight] Frank? Frank: Kick in the pants. Milly: Which one is Ephraim and which is Daniel? Ephraim Pontipee, Daniel Pontipee: Me. Milly: Y'all live around here? Caleb: Not round, here. Adam: [to Gideon] What's the matter with you? Someone butt you in the bread basket? Milly: Raise your hat. What's the matter, Caleb? Caleb: My hair ain't combed. Milly: Say something nice, Gideon. Gideon: Nice night for a coon hunt. Adam: What do you call her? Milly: I was thinking of some name like Hannah or Hagar or Hephzibah, picking up where your mother left off. Adam: Hannah. Milly: Hannah. Adam: I got to thinking up at the cabin, about the baby. How I'd feel if someone came creeping in and carried her off. I'd string him up the nearest tree. I'd shoot him down as I would a thieving fox. Adam: Smells good enough to eat. Milly: Tastes good too, so they tell me. Adam: Got any ketchup handy? Milly: My stew can stand on its own feet. Adam: Morning ma'am. Lem's girlfriend: Morning backwoodsman. Adam: Nice day for marrying. Lem: Well, that's a right good idea. Lem's girlfriend: Oh Lem, I thought you'd never ask me. Gideon: Adam, your my eldest brother. Now I've always looked up to ya, tried to copy ya. Now I know you can lick me, lick the tar outta ma! But I wouldn't hold myself no kinda man unless I showed ya how I felt! [punches him] Adam: Why you...! [throws him on horse, hands him reigns] Adam: Now, GIT! [slaps horse] Quotes found at The Internet Movie Base