I’ve been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.
A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell.
I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
I personally stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get.
Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure;' in loving these, in displaying to the utmost of the painter's power such loveliness as is in them, and directing the thoughts of others to them by winning art, or gentle emphasis.
The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.
Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.
I'd been visiting Mount Airy every year for Mayberry Days. Twice when I was doing personal appearances, one in Alabama and once for Mayberry Days, my house in Los Angeles was robbed. I decided I didn't want to live there anymore, so I moved to Mount Airy, and I am so glad I did!