Moms Mabley famous quotes

03-28-2025

LOVE is like Playing Checkers. You have to know which Man to MOVE.
-- Moms Mabley

#Moving #Men #Love Is
Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody.
-- Moms Mabley

#Children #Light #Car
[On old age:] You wake up one morning and you got it.
-- Moms Mabley

#Morning #Age #Wake Up
[On turning down an invitation to appear for four minutes on the Ed Sullivan Show:] Honey, it takes Moms four minutes just to get on the stage.
-- Moms Mabley

#Mom #Four #Honey
Honey, that Totie Fields is one well-fed white woman. When that gal sits around the house, she sits around the house!
-- Moms Mabley

#White #House #Weight
A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man's man only as long as he can
-- Moms Mabley

#Men #Maturity #Long
Ain't nothin' an ol' man can do but bring me a message from a young one.
-- Moms Mabley

#Men #Messages #Young
The teenagers aren't all bad. I love 'em if nobody else does. There ain't nothing wrong with young people. Jus' quit lyin' to 'em.
-- Moms Mabley

#Teenager #People #Ems
My husband was so ugly, he used to stand outside the doctorâ€™s office and make people sick.
-- Moms Mabley

#Husband #Doctors #Sick
It's no disgrace to be old. But damn if it isn't inconvenient.
-- Moms Mabley

#Damn #Disgrace #Ifs
Anytime you see me with my arms around an old man, I'm holding him for the police.
-- Moms Mabley

#Men #Police #Arms
Black women, white women- all of them. I'm colorblind. I don't know the difference. I only know you're a human being and you're my children.
-- Moms Mabley

#Children #White #Differences
I don't want nothing old but some old money. Buy me some young ideas. That's what I'm gonna do with it.
-- Moms Mabley

#Ideas #Want #Young
Use those brains that God put in your head.
-- Moms Mabley

#Brain #Use
If you don't want your children to know the truth about life don't send 'em to the theater to see Moms 'cause I'm gonna tell them THE TRUTH, hear?
-- Moms Mabley

#Mom #Children #Ems
You know Moms has been accused of liking young men, and I'm guilty.
-- Moms Mabley

#Mom #Men #Guilty

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