A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is
going somewhere.
A child of five
would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of
five.
A hospital bed
is a parked taxi with the meter running.
A man's only as
old as the woman he feels.
A woman is an
occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
Alimony is like
buying hay for a dead horse.
All people are
born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.
And I want to
thank you for all the enjoyment you've taken out of
it.
Anyone who says
he can see through women is missing a lot.
Behind every
successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
Either he's dead
or my watch has stopped.
From the moment
I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed
with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
Getting older is
no problem. You just have to live long enough.
Go, and never
darken my towels again.
Humor is reason
gone mad.
I didn't like
the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the
curtain was up.
I don't care to
belong to a club that accepts people like me as
members.
I find
television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the
set, I go into the other room and read a book.
I have a mind to
join a club and beat you over the head with it.
I have had a
perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
I must confess,
I was born at a very early age.
I must say I
find television very educational. The minute somebody turns
it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
I never forget a
face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an
exception.
I read in the
newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of
intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to
8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if
they started at 6:30.
I refuse to join
any club that would have me as a member.
I remember the
first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.
I
was married by a judge. I should have asked for a
jury.
I wish to be
cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent,
as written in our contract.
I won't belong
to any organization that would have me as a member.
I worked my way
up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
I, not events,
have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can
choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow
hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm
going to be happy in it.
I'm leaving
because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's
not raining.
I'm not feeling
very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest
golf course.
I've got the
brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of
it.
I've had a
perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
If I held you
any closer I would be on the other side of you.
If you've heard
this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear
it again.
In Hollywood,
brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.
It isn't
necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be
unhappy.
Marriage is a
wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an
institution?
Marry me and
I'll never look at another horse!
Military
intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Military justice
is to justice what military music is to music.
My favourite
poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September'
because it actually tells you something.
My mother loved
children - she would have given anything if I had been
one.
Next time I see
you, remind me not to talk to you.
No man goes
before his time - unless the boss leaves early.
One morning I
shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas
I'll never know.
Outside of a
dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's
too dark to read.
Politics doesn't
make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
Politics is the
art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere,
diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong
remedies.
Practically
everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and
does.
Quote me as
saying I was mis-quoted.
Remember, we're
fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably far more
than she's ever done!
Room service?
Send up a larger room.
She got her
looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
The first thing
which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born.
These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time
nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living
soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
The secret of
life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that,
you've got it made.
There's one way
to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says,
"Yes," you know he is a crook.
Those are my
principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have
others.
Well, Art is
Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water.
And east is east and west is west and if you take
cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much
more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what
you know.
When I was young
I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato
began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no
longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth
shirked because they would take too long.
Who are you
going to believe, me or your own eyes?
Whoever named it
necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
Why a
four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out
and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor
tail out of it.
Why should I
care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for
me?
Why was I with
her? She reminds me of you. In fact, she reminds me more of
you than you do!
Why, I'd
horse-whip you if I had a horse.
Wives are people
who feel they don't dance enough.
Women should be
obscene and not heard.