Joey Adams famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
-- Joey Adams

#Funny #Life #Birthday
Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
-- Joey Adams

#Funny #Kissing #Fool
Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.
-- Joey Adams

#Funny #Marriage #Witty
If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.
-- Joey Adams

#Fitness #Exercise #Bad Ass
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
-- Joey Adams

#Love #Marriage #Clever
Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does.
-- Joey Adams

#Children #Parent #Doe
The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.
-- Joey Adams

#Horse #Winning #Differences
Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'
-- Joey Adams

#Success #Congratulations #Oil

I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath.
Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
I had two thoughts about it. One was I could do that, and the next one was I'll never get to do that.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
Life is just a chance to grow a soul.
Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.
Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.
Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

Joey Adams famous quotes

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