| "You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man." | Kathleen Turner, in Body Heat |
| "We are going to turn this team around 360 degrees." | Jason Kidd, basketball player |
| "Charm is getting the answer yes without asking a clear question." | Albert Camus |
| "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." | Winston Churchill |
| "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." | Robert Frost |
| "Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet." | Chinese Proverb |
| "You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think." | Dorothy Parker, challenged to use 'horticulture' in a sentence |
| "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." | Françoise Sagan |
| "A state of doubt is unpleasant, but a state of certainty is ridiculous." | Voltaire |
| "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea. If this is tea, please bring me some coffee." | Abraham Lincoln |
| "Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all other possibilities." | Winston Churchill |
| "People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like." | Abraham Lincoln |
| "Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." | Benjamin Franklin |
| "When Hemingway killed himself he put a period at the end of his life. Old age is more like a semicolon." | Kurt Vonnegut |
| "I was so ugly when I was born, the doctor slapped my mother." | Henny Youngman |
| "Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers." | Homer Simpson |
| "Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?" | Tom Stoppard, 'Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead' |
| "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." | Milton Berle |
| "At the airport they asked me if anybody I didn't know gave me anything. Even the people I know don't give me anything" | George Wallace |
| "Last night I was having dinner with Charles Manson, and in the middle of dinner he turned to me and said 'Is it hot in here, or am I crazy?'" | Gilbert Gottfried |
| "Last night, it was so cold, the flashers in New York were only describing themselves." | Johnny Carson |
| "The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage." | Emperor Hirohito, in broadcast announcing Japan's WWII surrender |
| "The large print giveth and the small print taketh away." | Tom Waits |
| "Just because I don't care doesn't mean I'm not listening." | Homer Simpson |
| "I think it would be a good idea." | Mahatma Gandhi, asked what he thought of Western civilization |
| "I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers." | Mahatma Gandhi |
| "If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun." | Benjamin Franklin |
| "George Washington's brother, Lawrence, was the Uncle of Our Country." | George Carlin |
| "You have the Midas touch. Everything you touch turns to a muffler." | Henny Youngman |
| "Be thankful for laughter except when milk comes out of your nose." | Steve Martin |
| "All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work." | Steve Martin |
| "You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither." | Steve Martin |
| "First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me." | Steve Martin |
| "There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible and wrong." | H.L. Mencken |
| "Ted Striker: Surely you can't be serious. Dr. Rumack: I am serious. And don't call me Shirley." | , 'Airplane' |
| "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way." | Mark Twain |
| "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." | Clarence Darrow |
| "If I had any humility I would be perfect." | Ted Turner |
| "Two people writing a novel is like three people having a baby." | Evelyn Waugh |
| "My doctor told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already." | Milton Berle |
| "Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest." | Alexandre Dumas |
| "I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf." | Tug McGraw |
| "The English have 42 religions, but only two sauces." | Voltaire |
| "There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line." | Oscar Levant |
| "Unless a man feels he has a good memory, he should never venture to lie." | Montaigne |
| "Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef." | Tom Robbins |
| "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." | Albert Einstein, describing radio |
| "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." | Mark Twain |
| "Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people." | W.C. Fields |
| "Moe: Eureka! Curly: You don't smell too good yourself." | Three Stooges |