Quotes By Johnny Carson

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: "Are your ready?"

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

When turkeys mate they think of swans.

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

We're more effective than birth control pills.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.