Top 20 Barney Fife Quotes From 'The Andy Griffith Show'

The famous American comedy television show, 'The Andy Griffith Show', was first aired on 3 October 1960.

The show has 249 episodes compiled together into five solid seasons famous worldwide and is a comedy sitcom. The show made its last appearance on TV screens on 1 April 1968.

The show is basically about a slow-paced, happy-go-lucky town of Mayberry, the home of a sheriff named Andy (the protagonist of the story). Sheriff Andy is loved by all and is a 'public's man' for his precise use of law and efficient case-solving skills. However, problems start appearing in Andy's life (in a humorous way) when Barney Fife, who is supposedly Andy's cousin, enters Andy's professional life as his deputy sheriff working under him. As the story unfolds, it only gets funnier to watch the two pulling each other's legs along with Barney adding a different tincture of humor all along.

Keeping the plot in mind, Barney Fife is one hell of a humorous character. He is a slow-paced deputy sheriff who tries to present himself as a knowledgeable man, continually trying to impress the crowd around. One of the major sources of comedy in this show is Barney's incompetence with firearms; as a result of which he is only allowed to carry around a 4-inch Colt Official Police Revolver (unloaded) with his one bullet kept in his shirt pocket.

Talking about Barney's personal life, Barney's middle name is still a point of mystery as some claim the letter 'P' to be his middle name, while others think it stands for something, but we don't know what. Therefore Barney Fife's actual middle name or the full-form of P remains unknown. Turning to his love life, it comes to one's knowledge that Barney Fife was married to Thelma Lou in the reunion Movie, 'Return To Mayberry', how lovely?

The show's overall experience is captured below in some of the funniest Barney Fife quotes ever. If you like these, you should totally read these 'The Andy Griffith Show' quotes and Steve Martin quotes too.
 

Here are some famous Barney Fife quotes about others highlighting his ideology of trying to "deal with people from the heart" from 'The Andy Griffith Show'.

1. 'If there's anything that upsets me, it's having people say I am sensitive."

- Barney Fife.

2. "I could go up to the pickle factory. They always need a Brine Tester."

- Barney Fife.

3. "Why do you want to irritate your corn?"

- Barney Fife.

4. "You beat everything, you know that."

- Barney Fife.

5. "You got a fight on your hands."

- Barney Fife.

Here is a collection of funny as well as sarcastic Barney Fife quotes from 'The Andy Griffith Show'. Fans of 'The Andy Griffith Show' might recognize these famous quotes.

6. "Sure you can end up hungover and in jail. But sometimes it's worth it."

- Barney Fife.

7. "Well I guess to sum it up, you could say there are three reasons why there's so little crime in Mayberry. There's Andy and there's me and [patting gun] baby makes three."

- Barney Fife.

8. "Sniffing out crime, one step at a time."

- Barney Fife.

9. "That poor blind fool. He don't know it but he is headed right for a heartbreak alley."

- Barney Fife.

10. "I stand before you a humble man all choked up with humbleness and humility."

- Barney Fife.

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11. "What's the matter, haven't you ever seen a man take off his dress before?"

- Barney Fife.

12. "Attitude, time to make an adjustment."

- Barney Fife.

13. "I am sick of the whole thing too. You bring two people together and what do you get? Heartaches!"

- Barney Fife.

14. "Always when you plot someone dumber than yourself, you make them look smarter."

- Sheriff Barney Fife.

15. "Now is the time for all the good men to come to the aid of their neighbor."

- Barney Fife.

Here are some more Deputy Barney Fife quotes, highlighting his character as a Deputy Sheriff.

16. "Because today's eight-year-olds are tomorrow's teenagers."

- Barney Fife.

17.  "All I am saying is there are some things beyond the ken of the mortal man that shouldn't be tampered with. We don't know everything, Andy. There's plenty going on right now in the twilight zone that we don't know anything about and I think we got to stay clear."

- Barney Fife.

18. "I am surprised at you, Andy. They want people who have had musical training. Why suppose they ask Rafe to do something he don't know? Rafe, if they asked you to sing acapella, could you do it?"

- Barney Fife.

19. "Technicality – you have to admit, a brick ain't a rock, you did say rock..."

- Barney Fife.

20. "It is a wise man who knows not to push the limits of the law."

- Barney Fife.

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